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From the author of The House on Mango Street, a compilation of true reviews and nonfiction pieces that, taken alongside one another, form a jigsaw autobiography - a romantic album of an beloved literary legend. From your Chicago neighborhoods where she was raised and arranged her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in an area where "my ancestors lived for centuries", the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided motivation on her behalf now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take main, has eluded her. With this collection - spanning three generations and including never-before-published work - Cisneros has get back at last. Ranging from the private (her parents' loving and tempestuous marriage) to the political (a rallying cry for just one woman's liberty in Sarajevo) to the literary (a tribute to Marguerite Duras), and written with her trademark lyricism, these signature pieces remember transformative remembrances as well as reveal her defining creative and intellectual affects. Poignant, genuine, and deeply moving, this is an exuberant celebration of an life in writing lived to the fullest.
