… animals” are the “home” Sandra Cisneros needs to “feel like writing.” The MacArthur “Genius”-author of The House on Mango Street – one of those celebrated pivotal titles readers never forget – offers the “stories from my life span from 1984 to 2014,” grounded by actual addresses she’s called her own, from Chicago to a Greek island to her longest address in San Antonio: “The memories I present here are a way of claiming my real life and differentiating it from my fiction.”
