/lit/ - Literature

>>19244088
i am writing a novella for class. my novella is written in vingettes from the house that this family lives in. it chronicles the birth of the daughter, sylvia, the mother getting sick, the father dying. all while chronicling the different time periods (the book begins with sylvias birth in 1947 or postwar). I am scared that my novela is too similar to house on mango street. If you are familiar with house on mango street, what do you think? there will be no latino mumbo jumbo in my book just a european 3rd gen immigrant family and their working class life throughout different periods.