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Book 1 Jan 1984

The House on Mango Street

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Publisher
Vintage
Published
1 January 1984
  • Fiction
  • Mexican Americans
  • Girls
  • Short stories
  • Adolescence
  • Modern Literature
  • Spanish language materials
  • Hispanic Americans

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.