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In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its initial publication, and with a new introduction by the author, here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics even as it depicts a new American landscape.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
The San Francisco Chronicle has called The House on Mango Street "marvelous... spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world." It is an extraordinary achievement that will live on for years to come.
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Fiction, Mexican Americans, Girls, Short stories, Adolescence, Modern Literature, open_syllabus_project, Spanish language materials, Hispanic Americans, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Adolescent -- Chicago, Adolescent, Juvenile fiction, Coming of Age, Hispanic & Latino, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, coming of age, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Reading materials, General, Fiction - General, Spanish language, Large print books, Large type books, Hispanic americans--illinois--chicago--fiction, Girls--illinois--chicago--fiction, Ps3553.i78 h618 1994, 813/.54Places
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The House on Mango Street
October 1999, Tandem Library, Brand: Turtleback, Turtleback Books
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The house on Mango Street
1994, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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1991, Vintage Books
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"Originally published, in somewhat different form, by Arte Público Press in 1984. Reprinted by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso.
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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.
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