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    Have You Seen Marie?
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    Have You Seen Marie?

    Published by Dreamscape Media Audio

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    About this audiobook

    The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing. The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, "Have you seen Marie?" the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning.

    This audiobook is in both English and Spanish.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781611209983
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    • 5/5
      Several months after Sandra Cisneros' mother died, Sandra Cisnero decided she needed to bring herself back from the empty feelings of loss and grief ( " I was fifty-three years old and felt like an orphan") and create a lyrical memorial to her mother and to the people who live in her neighborhood in San Antonio.
      Although HAVE YOU SEEN MARIE? was written for adults, it has a childlike simplicity and grace. Illustrated by Ester Hernandez, the basic story is about looking for a lost cat in Cisneros' neighborhood in San Antonio. But, the underlying message is that even when we are in deep mourning for those who have died, even if we feel a part of ourselves has also died, love cannot die.
    • 4/5
      At I thought this was a kids book. It is about a missing cat named Marie. This novel in verse and prose recounts a woman's grief after the loss of her mother. Compounding the sadness is tuxedo cat Marie who has run away. This autobiographical story reminded me of Seedfolks by Fleishman. As Sandra and Roz look for Marie you learn about all the people in their neighborhood and sometimes what these people have lost as well. I enjoyed the illustrations and thought about adults as orphans and the concept of being alone.
    • 5/5
      While I was shelving books at the library where I work, I stumbled across the pretty purple cover of this book. I had to open it and flip through. I was hooked when I saw the bright colorful illustrations and very curious as to what this book was about. I didn't read the inside flap to find out about the book, instead I just started reading. What a wonderful story! I was surprised to see how the characters start off searching for a lost cat and end up exploring the neighborhood, meeting new neighbors and examing the meaning ways we lose things, love, relationships and hope. The ending was perfect. The illustrations added to the story in great detail. I would recommend this book for anyone dealing with grief and loss and looking for healing.
    • 4/5
      Such a charming fable. I hope I remember the lessons when I lose someone I love. I really like that the neighbors and neighborhood, and cats, were drawn from life. And yes, though this is distinctly a book for adults, kids (as young as 4?) could benefit from it too. Maybe they'd experience the book on different levels or in different ways - but that's ok... this is art, and interpretation of art is up to the viewer/reader.
    • 5/5
      Sandra writes like no other. She captures my heart and the essence of my Texican soul with each passage.
    • 4/5
      A short story with a dash of magical realism which describes the struggle of a middle aged woman dealing with the death of her mother and the void it leaves in her life even at this stage in her life.Wonderful illustrations by Ester Hernandez.
    • 4/5
      I appreciated the message of the book, but I think I liked the afterword the most, actually. It was succinct and poetic whereas the process of encountering all the neighbors during the story itself felt too redundant after a while. I hope I will remember (or remember to come back to) her ruminations on death and life when I am facing similar losses.