Welcome to Academia Unlocked, our literary deep-dive series on Book Talk for BookTok! In this episode, we kick off our three-part series discussing The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

With over 13 years of combined academic training in literature and creative writing, we walk listeners through the foundational tools of reading beyond the surface. The book community talks about the "decline of literacy" constantly, but almost no one stops to define what literary literacy actually is or how to build it. This series exists to change that.

Whether you first read this novel in a middle school classroom, came back to it as an adult and found it completely different, or only know Esperanza Cordero's name from a syllabus you never finished, this series will give you the critical lens to engage with Sandra Cisneros's Mango Street with more depth, more confidence, and a lot more to say.

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