The House on Mango StreetThe House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.

"Cisneros draws on her rich Latino heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat ing unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." - The New York Times Book Review