”The House on Mango Street,” by Chicago playwright Sandra Cisneros, follows the journey of Esperanza Cordero, a young woman obsessed with the thought of leaving home.

More than 40 years after its publication, “The House on Mango Street” has been adapted into an opera by Derek Bermel and ...

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 ...

This independence is most perfectly embodied in Cisneros’s 1994 poetry collection, Loose Woman. I came across the titular ...

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 ...

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 ...

I guess House On Mango Street could be considered a modern re-telling of the 1920s classic in some ways. The House On Mango Street follows the story of Esperanza's life as a Chicana in a Hispanic ...

Built to Last Sandra Cisneros on the 25th anniversary of 'The House on Mango Street' By Belinda Acosta, Fri., March 20, 2009 ...

The House on Mango Street will instantly become a celebrated production at The Rose, October 9 to 18. Based on the award-winning novel by Sandra Cisneros, now in its 25 th year of publication, the ...

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, ...