The House on Mango Street is the title that brought Cisneros to the forefront of U.S. Latino arts and letters and indeed solidified her place in American literature.

Where “House on Mango Street” the book offers a collection of vignettes, “House on Mango Street” the opera threads a narrative through-line through all of them.

Discarded yet preserved. It’s been 40 years since the publication of The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros. The writing is experimental, fresh, contemporary, even genre-defying.