Easily one of the most critically and commercially successful novels by a Mexican American writer. In deceptively simple prose, it tells the stories of a young Mexican American girl's family and friends and of her coming-of-age within an impoverished Chicago neighborhood.

On The house on Mango Street / --Biography of Sandra Cisneros / -- The Paris review perspective / -- Midwest Raíces: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / -- The critical reception of The house on Mango Street / -- On the "simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / -- Stories from the "hem of life": contesting marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / -- The "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / -- Memories of girlhood: Chicana lesbian fictions / -- Of woman bondage: the eroticism of feet in The house on Mango Street / -- Sandra Cisneros: border crossings and beyond / -- "This bridge we call home": crossing and bridging spaces in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / -- Crossing the borders of genre: revisions of the bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / -- The house on Mango Street: a space of her own / -- Coming of age in the curriculum: The house on Mango Street and Bless me, Ultima as representative texts / -- Homeplaces and spaces of their own / -- More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / -- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / -- Remembering always to come back: the child's wished-for escape and the adult's self- empowered return in Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / Reuben Sanchez. On The house on Mango Street -- Biography of Sandra Cisneros -- The Paris review perspective -- Critical contexts. Midwest Rai´ces: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- The critical reception of The house on Mango Street -- On the "simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street -- Stories from the "hem of life": contesting marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye -- Critical readings. The "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Memories of girlhood: Chicana lesbian fictions -- Of woman bondage: the eroticism of feet in The house on Mango Street -- Sandra Cisneros: border crossings and beyond -- "This bridge we call home": crossing and bridging spaces in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Crossing the borders of genre: revisions of the bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- The house on Mango Street: a space of her own -- Coming of age in the curriculum: The house on Mango Street and Bless me, Ultima as representative texts -- Homeplaces and spaces of their own -- More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street -- Remembering always to come back: the child's wished-for escape and the adult's self- empowered return in Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street.