Chanclas

　　It's me——Mama, Mama said. I open up and she's there with bags and big boxes, the new clothes and, yes, she's got the socks and a new slip with a little rose on it and a pink-and-white striped dress. What about the shoes? I forgot. Too late now. I'm tired. Whew！
　　Six-thirty already and my little cousin's baptism is over. All day waiting, the door locked, don't open up for nobody, and I don't till Mama gets back and buys everything except the shoes.
　　Now Uncle Nacho is coming in his car, and we have to hurry to get to Precious Blood Church quick because that's where the baptism party is, in the basement rented for today for dancing and tamales and everyone's kids running all over the place.
　　Mama dances, laughs, dances. All of a sudden, Mama is sick. I fan her hot face with a paper plate. Too many tamales, but Uncle Nacho says too many this and tilts his thumb to his lips.
　　Everybody laughing except me, because I'm wearing the new dress, pink and white with stripes, and new underclothes and new socks and the old saddle shoes I wear to school, brown and white, the kind I get every September because they last long and they do. My feet scuffed and round, and the heels all crooked that look dumb with this dress, so I just sit.
　　Meanwhile that boy who is my cousin by first communion or something asks me to dance and I can't. Just stuff my feet under the metal folding chair stamped Precious Blood and pick on a wad of brown gum that's stuck beneath the seat. I shake my head no. My feet growing bigger and bigger.
　　Then Uncle Nacho is pulling and pulling my arm and it doesn't matter how new the dress Mama bought is because my feet are ugly until my uncle who is a liar says, You are the prettiest girl here, will you dance, but I believe him, and yes, we are dancing, my Uncle Nacho and me, only I don't want to at first. My feet swell big and heavy like plungers, but I drag them across the linoleum floor straight center where Uncle wants to show off the new dance we learned. And Uncle spins me, and my skinny arms bend the way he taught me, and my mother watches, and my little cousins watch, and the boy who is my cousin by first communion watches, and everyone says, wow, who are those two who dance like in the movies, until I forget that I am wearing only ordinary shoes, brown and white, the kind my mother buys each year for school.
　　And all I hear is the clapping when the music stops. My uncle and me bow and he walks me back in my thick shoes to my mother who is proud to be my mother. All night the boy who is a man watches me dance. He watched me dance.

中文版

雨

芒果街上的小屋

頭髮

男孩和女孩

我的名字

貓皇后凱茜【註】

我們的好日子

笑聲

吉爾的舊傢俱買賣

麼麼·奧提茲

路易、他的表姐和表兄

瑪琳

那些人不明白

有一個老女人她有很多孩子不知道怎麼辦

看見老鼠的阿莉西婭

大流士和雲

還有……

小腳之家

米飯三明治

塌跟的舊鞋【註】

髖骨

第一份工

黑暗裡醒來的疲憊的爸爸

生辰不吉

伊倫妮塔、牌、手掌和水

沒有姓的傑拉爾多

埃德娜的鷺鷥兒

田納西的埃爾【註】

塞爾

四棵細瘦的樹

別說英語

在星期二喝可可和木瓜汁的拉菲娜

薩莉

密涅瓦寫詩

閣樓上的流浪者

美麗的和殘酷的

一個聰明人

薩莉說的

猴子花園

紅色小丑

亞麻地氈上的玫瑰

三姐妹

阿莉西婭和我在埃德娜的臺階上交談

一所我自己的房子

芒果有時說再見

作品背景

故事背後的故事

作者的寫作生涯

青芒果之味

英文版

The House on Mango Street

Hairs

Boys&Girls

My Name

Cathy Queen of Cats

Our Good Day

Laughter

Gil's Furniture Bought&Sold

Meme Ortiz

Louie, His Cousin&His Other Cousin

Marin

Those Who Don't

There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do

Alicia Who Sees Mice

Darius&the Clouds

And Some More

The Family of Litt1e Feet

A Rice Sandwich

Chanclas

Hips

The First Job

Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark

Born Bad

Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water

Geraldo No Last Name

Edna's Ruthie

The Earl of Tennessee

Sire

Four Skinny Trees

No Speak English

Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut&Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

Sally

Minerva Writes Poems

Bums in the Attic

Beautiful&Cruel

A Smart Cookie

What Sally Said

The Monkey Garden

Red Clowns

Linoleum Roses

The Three Sisters

Alicia&I Talking on Edna's Steps

A House of My Own

Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

英文版

Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

A House of My Own

Alicia&I Talking on Edna's Steps

The Three Sisters

Linoleum Roses

Red Clowns

The Monkey Garden

What Sally Said

A Smart Cookie

Beautiful&Cruel

Bums in the Attic

Minerva Writes Poems

Sally

Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut&Papaya Juice on Tuesdays

No Speak English

Four Skinny Trees

Sire

The Earl of Tennessee

Edna's Ruthie

Geraldo No Last Name

Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water

Born Bad

Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark

The First Job

Hips

Chanclas

A Rice Sandwich

The Family of Litt1e Feet

And Some More

Darius&the Clouds

Alicia Who Sees Mice

There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do

Those Who Don't

Marin

Louie, His Cousin&His Other Cousin

Meme Ortiz

Gil's Furniture Bought&Sold

Laughter

Our Good Day

Cathy Queen of Cats

My Name

Boys&Girls

Hairs

The House on Mango Street

中文版

青芒果之味

作者的寫作生涯

故事背後的故事

作品背景

芒果有時說再見

一所我自己的房子

阿莉西婭和我在埃德娜的臺階上交談

三姐妹

亞麻地氈上的玫瑰

紅色小丑

猴子花園

薩莉說的

一個聰明人

美麗的和殘酷的

閣樓上的流浪者

密涅瓦寫詩

薩莉

在星期二喝可可和木瓜汁的拉菲娜

別說英語

四棵細瘦的樹

塞爾

田納西的埃爾【註】

埃德娜的鷺鷥兒

沒有姓的傑拉爾多

伊倫妮塔、牌、手掌和水

生辰不吉

黑暗裡醒來的疲憊的爸爸

第一份工

髖骨

塌跟的舊鞋【註】

米飯三明治

小腳之家

還有……

大流士和雲

看見老鼠的阿莉西婭

有一個老女人她有很多孩子不知道怎麼辦

那些人不明白

瑪琳

路易、他的表姐和表兄

麼麼·奧提茲

吉爾的舊傢俱買賣

笑聲

我們的好日子

貓皇后凱茜【註】

我的名字

男孩和女孩

頭髮

芒果街上的小屋

雨