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Big Read 2025

Take part in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read by enjoying 2025's selection, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

Participa en el Big Read del National Endowment for the Arts y disfruta de la selección de 2025, La casa en Mango Street de Sandra Cisneros.

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"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

—from The House on Mango Street "Mi nombre significa esperanza y tiene demasiadas letras. Significa tristeza, significa espera"—de La casa en Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a Latina girl growing up in Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents, and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. 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.

La casa en Mango Street

Por Sandra Cisneros

Contada en una serie de viñetas impresionantes por su elocuencia, La casa en Mango Street, una novela muy admirada escrita por Sandra Cisneros, es sobre una chica latina que crece en Chicago. Elogiada por la crítica, admirada por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el país y traducida a una multitud de idiomas, ha entrado en el canon de los clásicos. A veces desgarradora, a veces profundamente alegre, La Casa en Mango Street cuenta la historia de Esperanza Cordero, cuyo vecindario cuanta con duras realidades y belleza. Esperanza no quiere pertenecer, ni a su barrio deteriorado, ni a las bajas expectativas que todos tienen para ella. La historia de Esperanza es la de una joven que se empodera y se inventa así misma lo que será.


Book cover for The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
Cisneros, Sandra

Book cover of La casa en Mango Street : una novela
La casa en Mango Street: una novela
Cisneros, Sandra

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