《芒果街上的小屋》 一本優美純凈的小書，一本“詩小說”。由幾十個短篇組成，語言清澈如流水，點綴著零落的韻腳和新奇的譬喻，如一首首長歌短調，各自成韻，又彼此鉤連，匯聚出一個清晰世界，各樣雜沓人生。所有的講述都歸于一個敘述中心：居住在芝加哥拉美移民社區芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎。生就對弱的同情心和對美的感覺力，她用清澈的眼打量周圍的世界，用美麗稚嫩的語言講述成長、滄桑、生命的美好與不易和年輕的熱望與夢想，夢想有一所自己的房子，夢想在寫作中追尋自我，獲得自由和幫助別人的能力。

The House on Mango Street 2
　　They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year. And our house would have running water and pipes that worked. And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the house on T.V.And we'd have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn't have to tell everybody. Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.
　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　芒果街上的小屋 2
　　他們一直對我們說，有一天，我們會搬進一所房子，一所真正的大屋，永遠屬于我們，那樣我們就不用每年搬家了。我們的房子會有自來水和好用的水管。里面還有真正的樓梯，不是門廳臺階，而是像電視上的房子里那樣的樓梯。我們會有一個地下室和至少三個衛生間，那樣洗澡的時間就不用告訴每個人。我們的房子會是白色的，四周是樹木，還有一個很大的原子，草兒生長著，沒有籬笆吧他們圈起來。這是爸爸手握彩票時提到的房子，這是媽媽在給我們講睡前故事里幻想著的房子。