The bestselling 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 2018 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.
