Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction - From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: "This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life." --Houston Chronicle From Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades
--and including never-before-published work
--Cisneros has come home at last.
Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of
The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving,
A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers.
