Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage, Sandra Cisneros, born in 1954, creates characters who are distinctly Hispanic and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emphasizing dialogue and sensory imagery over traditional narrative structures. To read the full biography use your library card to access Gale's Biography in Context.
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Told in a series of vignettes, it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
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