Sandra Cisneros is best known for her debut novel, The House on Mango Street, which follows a year in the life of a young Chincana girl. For the 40th anniversary of that book, Sandra joined Rachel ...

Sandra Cisneros showed us how to be free. I’ll tell you right now, that poem made me run out and buy my first black-lace bra. The poem is dedicated to a woman named la Terry.

Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking novel introduces readers to Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana growing up in a close-knit but poor Chicago neighborhood, as she becomes increasingly aware ...

Sandra Cisneros reflects on The House on Mango Street turning 40, why she wrote the book, ... and she became a mentor to me later in life. I felt at home in her neighborhood on the page.

Behar continued to guide the conversation by holding up copies of books that Cisneros has written throughout her literary career. Cisneros reminisced on each book and the time period of her life which ...