Introduction -- Hydra House -- No place like home -- Luis Omar Salinas -- Falling in love with Enamoramiento -- Marguerite Duras -- Huipiles -- Vivan los muertos -- Straw into gold -- A Tango for Astor -- Only daughter -- Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks -- My wicked wicked ways -- Who wants stories now -- La casa que canta -- Mercè Rodoreda -- The house on Mango Street's tenth birthday -- I can live sola and I love to work -- Tapicero's daughter -- Guadalupe the sex goddess -- ¡Que vivan los colores! -- Tenemos layaway, or, How I became an art collector -- An ofrenda for my father on Day of the Dead -- Un poquito de tu amor -- Eduardo Galeano -- Infinito botánica -- El pleito/The quarrel -- To Seville, with love -- A white flower -- Señor Cappuccino -- Natural daughter -- A girl called daydreamer -- A house of my own -- An ofrenda for my mother -- Resurrections -- Ten thousand -- The author responds to your letter requesting my book be banned from the school library -- The girl who became a saint : Teresa Urrea -- Chavela Vargas : una mujer muy mujer -- Chocolate and donuts -- Akumal -- A borrowed house -- Epilogue: Mi casa es su casa -- Pilón : infinito -- Resting place/Descanso -- Acknowledgments.