A coming-of-age Novel (or Bildungs Roman) By Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros.
A set of vignettes charts her growth from childhood to young adulthood over the course of a year.
The House on Mango street uses a collection of forty-four short tales that evoke the circumstances and conditions of a Hispanic American ghetto in Chicago. The narrative is seen through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero, an adolescent girl coming of age.
by F.U.N. November 27, 2009
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