This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Sandra Cisneros, the author of “The House on Mango Street.” Her latest work, “A House of My Own,” is a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend.

Home is a theme throughout, usually in the form of clever aphorisms ("A house for me is a space to reinvent oneself, like putting on a new dress."), and Cisneros drops countless anecdotes about writing her famous first novel. But eventually home becomes less associated with the house on Mango Street, particularly when she applies it as a metaphor to other developments in her life, for example her literary activism: "We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning."

“A House of My Own: Stories from My Life” includes works from three decades of her writing, and in it Cisneros generously invites us into her home and her world, with the grace of that old saying “Mi casa is su casa.”

· In “A House of My Own,” Sandra Cisneros "has written what may well bethe best memoir of the year thus far." -- The Library Journal

· “A charming, tender memoir.” -- Kirkus“Kirkus List: 11 Memoirs That Read Better Than a Novel”