A house of my own : stories from my life /
"From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Hydra House
- No Place Like Home
- Luis Omar Salinas
- Falling in Love with Enamoramiento
- Marguerite Duras
- Huipiles
- Vivan los Muertos
- Straw into Gold
- A Tango for Astor
- Only Daughter
- Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks
- My Wicked Wicked Ways
- Who Wants Stories Now
- La Casa Que Canta
- Mercè Rodoreda
- The House on Mango Street's Tenth Birthday
- I Can Live Sola and I Love to Work
- Tapicero's Daughter
- Guadalupe the Sex Goddess
- ¡Que Vivan los Colores!
- Tenemos Layaway, or, How I Became an Art Collector
- An Ofrenda for My Father on Day of the Dead
- Un Poquito de Tu Amor
- Eduardo Galeano
- Infinito Botánica
- El Pleito/The Quarrel
- To Seville, with Love
- A White Flower
- Señor Cappuccino
- Natural Daughter
- A Girl Called Daydreamer
- A House of My Own
- An Ofrenda for My Mother
- Resurrections
- Ten Thousand
- The Author Reponds to Your Letter Requesting My Book Be Banned from the School Library
- The Girl Who Became a Saint: Teresa Urrea
- Chavela Vargas: Una Mujer Muy Mujer
- Chocolate and Donuts
- Akumal
- A Borrowed House
- Epilogue: Mi Casa Es Su Casa
- Pilón: Infinito
- Resting Place/Descano
- Acknowledgments.