Sandra Cisneros: New novel is an overdue letter to a friend
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Sandra Cisneros feels like she’s finally replied to a long overdue letter with her new book, “Martita, I Remember You.”
NEW YORK -- With her new book, “Martita, I Remember You," Sandra Cisneros feels like she's finally answered a long overdue letter.
The author of the best-selling “The House on Mango Street” is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship, but also about the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide.
Inspired by Cisneros' own time in Paris as a young, aspiring writer, “Martita” follows Corina, a woman in her 20s who has left her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue literary dreams in the city where Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin and many others lived. During her brief time there, she finds herself struggling with money, befriending panhandling artists and sleeping on crowded floors with other immigrants.
Supporting her through it all are Martita and Paola, an Argentine and an Italian as broke as she was.
