The story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.  Esperanza’s thoughts and emotions are expressed in her fable-like poems and stories, which portray the alternating beauty and desolation of her life and its realities. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong—not to her rundown 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.

–From Random House Publisher

More about Sandra Cisneros

The post The House on Mango Street appeared first on Healing Hamlet.