Strings scrub away with their bows when Esperanza’s mother cleans the Mango Street house’s creaky stairs. Salsa blares at the neighborhood’s sweltering summer block party.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, $8, Amazon. Esperanza's great-grandfather kidnapped her great-grandmother. Early in the novel, Esperanza introduces the reader to her namesake—her ...

A 25th anniversary edition of The House on Mango Street has just been published. Renee Montagne speaks with author Sandra Cisneros about the story of a Mexican-American girl growing up in Chicago.

As Esperanza's eyes open to her surroundings and the strength and vulnerability of the women in her life, she begins to forge a dream of one day leaving Mango Street.

Then I met Esperanza Cordero. The House on Mango Street was our assigned reading, and as I devoured the novel, I realized that this was the first time I'd read about a girl with a last name like ...

Cisneros’ first novel, “The House on Mango Street” (1984) – a short, lyrical volume that follows Esperanza, a schoolgirl about to become a young woman living in a Latino section of Chicago ...

From the first lines about the family’s home on Mango Street, we sense Esperanza’s disappointment and thinning patience with her parents’ dreams: “(I)t’s not the house we thought we’d ...

What I love about The House on Mango Street is that, even though it’s about sex and boys and relationships, ultimately it’s about the power of independent women. Esperanza wants to live on her ...

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 ...

At barely 100 pages, The House On Mango Street almost doesn’t qualify as a novel. It’s a series of stories tied together by one narrator-protagonist, Esperanza Cordero, a young girl coming of ...

The Santa Maria Public Library's book club, The Valley Reads, will discuss The House on Mango Street at its monthly meeting 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday, ...