Sandra Cisneros
Published 1984
The House on Mango Street
is a coming of age story by Sandra Cisneros first published in 1984. I remember reading this story in Middle School and thinking that this was the first time I was able to really relate to a character. The short novel is written in a series of vignettes dealing with memorable experiences growing up in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. The stories deal with issues of identity and growing up to relationships and sex. The main character describes her experiences and her friends who are discovering many things about relationships and what it means to become a woman.
is a coming of age story by Sandra Cisneros first published in 1984. I remember reading this story in Middle School and thinking that this was the first time I was able to really relate to a character. The short novel is written in a series of vignettes dealing with memorable experiences growing up in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. The stories deal with issues of identity and growing up to relationships and sex. The main character describes her experiences and her friends who are discovering many things about relationships and what it means to become a woman.
We are currently planning an introduction to literature course and this is one of the books that keeps coming up because we are looking at different recurring themes in literature including banned books and why people protest literature. This and the rest of Sandra Cisneros works were banned in Arizona in 2012 following a law banning works that “gave students a one-sided approach to history promoting Latino Activism.” Cisneros gave a reading at my University in 2012 promoting her new book and in the Q and A was asked what she thought about Arizona banning her books. She said it was great, that she was having one of her best years in book sales. The unintended publicity found a new generation of readers for her and she was grateful.
The House on Mango Street is available on the Kindle for $5.99. Pick up your copy of the latest banned “anti-American” book and see what all the fuss is about.
is available on the Kindle for $5.99. Pick up your copy of the latest banned “anti-American” book and see what all the fuss is about.
For more on the Arizona debacle follow this link.
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