![]() ![]() Like a manifesto, it reasserts Cisneros’s artistic credo-living alone, charting her path, seeing writing as ‘a resistance, an act against forgetting, a war against oblivion, against not counting, as women’. ![]() A literary salon steeped in storytelling and writers, it honors her process and influences and draws attention to crucial and difficult points of her development. The book’s atypical form offers a truer portrait of Cisneros than might be found in a conventional autobiography. These ‘stories from my life’ assemble nonfiction drawn from three decades, touching on themes similar to those found in her fiction-identity, belonging, culture, feminism, the importance of home and kinship-each has a new introduction explaining the context and why she chose it. “ A House of My Own tells the story of the award-winning Mexican-American novelist, poet, short story writer and essayist’s quest for her dream house, in a book as beautifully appointed as her legendary ‘purple’ home in San Antonio, with lustrous pages, color photographs and colorful chapter headings that lend it the look and feel of an objet d’art. ![]() Poignant, honest, deeply moving, this is an exuberant celebration of a life in writing lived to the fullest. Ranging from the private (her parents’ loving and tempestuous marriage) to the political (a rallying cry for one woman’s liberty in Sarajevo) to the literary (a tribute to Marguerite Duras), and written with her trademark lyricism, these signature pieces recall transformative memories as well as reveal her defining artistic and intellectual influences. With this collection-spanning three decades, and including never-before-published work-Cisneros has come home at last. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography-an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.įrom 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 poetry. ![]()
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