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"The House On Mango Street" Novel Turned Into Art Exhibit

The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque has turned the novel "The House on Mango Street" by acclaimed Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros into an art exhibit.

Cisneros, one of the nation's most celebrated Latina authors, this week visited the art inspired by her 1984 novel of a poor Latina living in Chicago.

"The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community" features major themes of the book, including hope, personal dreams, hardship, disillusionment, and family.

The novel "The House on Mango Street" centers on Esperanza Cordero, a young Mexican-American girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. It has been read in thousands of high school and college classes across the country.

The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

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