THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET (Vintage Contemporaries)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic acclaimed by critics beloved by readers of all ages taught in schools and universities alike and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.. 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