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"As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris...."Instead she confronts an expensive city she can't afford and she has to figure out how to stay there. One thing is to find two dear friends, and some of the memories come through in these letters. This is in English and in Spanish, so as an audiobook it's 3.25 hours total but perhaps only if you speak both languages!
“I should’ve answered your letter. Some things that happened to me were wonderful, and some parts were only good because they passed. When things were bad, I kept thinking better was just around the corner, and by the time I had the energy to raise my head and take a look at my life, years and years had passed. Forgive me. I didn’t want to admit to myself this was all I had to tell you, this life of mine. At the time, it didn’t seem enough, not what I expected, not what I had ordered, not wh
2.5 starsVery artistic, but also fairly uninteresting. This one seems to suffer from the same thing that haunts extremely autobiographical works: there is not enough connection for an outsider. The biggest flaw for me is the epistolary structure. It is disjointed and just so trendy that I’ve had enough, regardless of how effective Cisneros may be with it. She has doubled down on minimalism and insinuation to a spot just before poetry with each entry. I would actually be happier with a book of po...
Doubly delightful short story in English and in Spanish. When I was in high school taking French class, I had a dream that I would move to France and become fluent in the beautiful French language. French always came easy to me because it resembles Spanish so much and I love it so much. This short story is a lovely snippet in time when friends live in Paris just out of high school. The friendship, the hopes and the dreams. Oh my dream passed me by! Lovely lovely short read that reminded me of wh...
Letters between two characters who met in Paris. The woman from Michigan moved to Paris to become a writer and spent her money. Paolo the man, did the same thing but their bond is firm after returning to their hum drum lives.
Not my favorite Cisneros book, but still beautiful. My favorite part are the letters from Paola—the phrasing is so very Italian. “It is a long time I don’t have news from you”—è tanto tempo che non ho notizie da te. I think maybe I’ll understand it more when I’m older.
Martita, I Remember You is a short, partially epistolary novel about the pull of friendship between three women: Corina, Poala and Martita. I loved the setting and the forged friendship between the young women as they explore Paris while trying to pursue their dreams. I enjoyed reading the letters exchanged between them because their voices were unique and fun and really stood out here. I wish this was a full length novel! I'm interested to read more Sandra Cisneros in the future.
I read this novel, then turned to page one and read the whole thing again. That tells you everything you need to know. This is a dazzling, emotional read. Highly, highly recommend.
This is a lovely, sparse book, almost poetry but in prose format. It's about a woman who used to be called Puffina reminiscing on her time spent living on pennies in Paris with two other young women, Argentinian Marta and Italian Paola. She finds a letter that Marta ("Martita," fondly) wrote her years after they left Paris, ending with the line, "Don't forget me." Puffina, now the less-fun Corina, back in her hometown of Chicago, has never forgotten Marta or Paola in the 10 or 15 years since rec...
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy in exchange for my honest review and opinion.I love Ms. Cisneros other books so I had to read this one. I’m so happy I was lucky to receive a copy! This was a story of Corina rediscovering old letters from her two dear friends when she was living in Paris many years ago. She reminisced her time when she was there with her friends, her dreams of her future and her love of many things. Now some time has passed and we see what happened to Corina
When Corina rediscovers a stash of her old letters, it brings back vivid memories of Marta and Paola--the two young women she befriended, partied with, and crashed with, during a long-ago trip to Paris. Told through a mix of letters and impressionistic memories of incidents and conversations, Martita, I Remember You offers a snapshot of a charmed moment in life.This very short novella contains flashes of Cisneros's signature poetic, emotion-laden imagery. However, for the most part, it seemed to...
Mixed feelings, especially since this really is a short story, not a real book. Despite being a longtime fan, it truly reads like a mishmash of memoir and mighta' coulda' shoulda' regarding a pre-grad school Paris stay and friends left behind. Beautiful wordplay typical of her work. I am grateful for the Spanish translation.I suspect most people will love it, even though I can't.Someone asked about a title of a book the main character reads, repeated several times in italics: Mithridates, King o...
As soon as I got my hands on this book I gobbled it right up! Sandra's voice in this is so good; reminiscent, regrettable, but contented. The story is short, but there's not much that needs to be said, it's almost like a love poem to the women that helped her in a rough time, while inadvertently touching their lives and helping them in ways she couldn't see. At first I wasn't a fan of the book's composition (view spoiler)[(a letter, a long story, letters, ending narrative) (hide spoiler)], but a...
Did I enjoy reading Sandra Cisneros' Martita, I Remember You? Yes.Is it a book I'll read again and again, like Loose Woman or The House on Mango Street? No.Cisneros knows how to tell a story, to pull readers along on a journey, offering enough scenery and commentary that they never feel bored, never feel that they've wasted a moment of reading time. But, there are the books you read once and the books you read again and again. For me, Martita, I Remember You was a one-read experience.Martita is