“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros has been studied in classrooms, recommended to daughters by their mothers and then to their friends, read in book clubs, topped national best-seller lists, and awarded literary prizes. A series of short vignettes that make up a year in a young life, the novel explores identity, family dynamics, the power of language, and the necessity of community as Esperanza experiences joy, sorrow, growth and false starts. "Every human being is a walking book",