[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett
b'The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she\\u2019s received a MacArthur \\u201cgenius grant,\\u201d a National Medal of Arts, and many other accolades. Cisneros grew up in an immigrant household where it was assumed she would marry as her primary destiny. In this warm and lively conversation with a room full of Latinx teens, she gives voice to the choice to be single \\u2014 and, single or not, to know solitude as sacred.'