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The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.
“The House on Mango Street” has received numerous accolades, including the American Book Award, and has been a national bestseller. Earlier this year, Jenna Bush Hager selected the classic for ...
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991).
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Written as a non-linear and fragmented collection of vignettes, [22] The House on Mango Street explores Latin-American identity through the eyes of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago. [3] [23] The House on Mango Street is a novel-length work consisting of individual vignettes that frame an underlying story. [23]
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by the Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros.The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familially bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew up north of the Mexico-US border.