“You just remember to keep writing, Esperanza. You must keep writing. It will keep you free.” Esperanza is only in seventh grade, but she is living a life beyond her years. In order to deal with her family’s new neighborhood and house on Mango Street, growing up, and the world around her Esperanza writes. Award winning poet Sandra Cisneros portrays the inner thoughts, observations and struggles of young Esperanza in a series of vignettes. Readers are privy to Esperanza’s internal struggles with friends, family, abuse, sex, and trying to free herself from the prison she knows as Mango Street. The flowing, poetic voices of the vignettes make the story easy to read and get absorbed in; while the complexity of Esperanza’s world will have readers examining every detail. The House on Mango Street is an excellent depiction of growing up, being different and coming in to one’s own. Highly Recommended.
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