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I bought this on a whim, thinking I could read it out loud with my daughter. I did and it was wonderful wonderful, most wonderful. A beautiful story, beautifully illustrated.
A cat missing, missing a dead mom and meeting neighbours..
I think I too enjoyed the afterword a little more than the actual story... But still!! Such a simple , powerful book! Sandra Cisneros has such a beautiful way with words. I love her constant use of similies & metaphors. It's as if she has no fear in her writing. Anyway.. I saw an interview she did in regards to this book & I just HAD to read it when I read a quote from it online.. (other reviewers have quoted it too..) "in Mexico they say when someone you love dies, a part of you dies with them....
A self-dubbed "adult fable," Have You Seen Marie? may at first glance seem like a book for children, but it really an offering to adults, perhaps made to feel like children or "orphans," when, late in life if we are lucky, lose a parent. Cisneros' small reflection on that space of time between the initial loss and the acceptance and transcendence that comes later is surprisingly powerful in its simplicity. I will definitely rereading this some day...but hopefully not for some time.If you still h...
It has the form of a children's book, with charming and colorful illustrations and large type, succinct paragraphs. But Cisneros says in her Afterward that she wrote it, following the death of her mother, for adults. Sandra's friend Roz, along with her cat, Marie, drives three days from Tacoma to visit in San Antonio. Marie promptly runs off. We become acquainted with Cisnero's San Antonio, and with neighbors (many of them real people, who posed for the artist) who are eager to help as Roz and S...
My review of Have You Seen Marie? is up on my blog now!https://bookreviewsfromanovelnerd.wor...
I was lucky enough to attend a reading of this book by Sandra Cisneros, and I must say she did an amazing job of bringing this story to life (not that reading it alone wouldn't be wonderful as well). The story is deceptively simple enough for anyone to enjoy - children included - but when you start looking into the layers of emotion and the meaning behind the characters in the story, it becomes a new experience.The book is tied in with Cisneros' personal experience, and, honestly, that's what ma...
Between 2 and 3 stars."Even sadness has its place in the universe.""I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death."
I'm a fan of Cisneros, and she really does use some beautiful language here. Some of the natural objects shown have anthropomorphic traits, but the images are fresh. I also like the concept behind the book, the larger idea that we can become orphans when we experience parental loss. I also give her kudos for involving her community in this work and letting Ester Hernandez do some beautiful drawings. In the end, though, this "fable for adults," left me wanting for more depth. I wanted to be pulle...
Lovely. Just what I needed to read. It really heals your heart.
I read this book in Spanish to practice my Spanish and since I am not fluent, I did not understand everything. My Spanish is not adequate to writing the review in Spanish so I am writing it in English.What I did understand was that a woman was looking for her lost cat, but these feelings were somehow intertwined with the loss of the author's mother. She and her friend are in San Antonio looking for her friend, Roz's, black and white cat. They meet a lot of the neighbors and ask them if they have...
This book touched me where I needed it, though I wasn't aware of that need at all. I am in a state of grief, and these words were a healing poultice to my heart.The book reads like a long poem. Sandra is searching for a cat, but really, the part of herself she lost when her mother died.Ms. Cisernos paints a lovely picture of her San Antonio neighborhood, with its eclectic residents of varied cultural backgrounds. She weaves them together like the individuals they are into an even more beauitful
This was such a wonderful creative undertaking. I felt Cisneros' pain and watched her road to rebirth as she asked San Antonio residents, including many of her neighbors, whether they had seen the cat Marie. Sometimes diving into life, into other people's lives, is the best remedy for coping with grief. I see how cathartic this story must have been for Cisneros, as she had lost her mother very recently. It certainly brought back many memories of when I was grieving for my grandmother, who I was
