The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) | Author: Sandra Cisneros | Language: English | Publisher: Vintage | Dimensions: 5.13 x 0.43 x 7.96 inches | ISBN-10: 9780679734772 | ISBN-13: 978-0679734772 | Publication Date: April 3, 1991 | Print Length: 144 pages

A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago, The House on Mango Street has been acclaimed by critics and beloved by readers of all ages. It is taught in schools and universities alike and translated around the world from the winner of the 2025 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.

Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage to seduce with precise, spare prose, creating unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer but an absolutely essential one.

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.”

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s.