In Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, deciphering two key motifs—the rose and trees—is fundamental to unpacking the central tension of the book: the protagonist’s desire to leave Mango ...

I first picked up Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street in the summer of 1998. I was nine years old, just two months away from starting the 6th grade, and I was attending an advanced summer ...

More than 40 years after its publication, “The House on Mango Street” has been adapted into an opera by Derek Bermel and author Sandra Cisneros, with a premiere during the Glimmerglass Festival.