HOUSE OF HOUSES by Mora, Pat - 1997

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Beacon Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors, HOUSE OF HOUSES is about oppresssion and survival and sometimes triumph, as "any book about a Mexican American family must be." Mora's house of houses is large, imagined, traditional, a refuge from the desert's heat, where the generations of her family, living and dead, mingle through the months of a single year, their struggles transformed by the magic and healing each member offers the others in ritual, language, stories, and recipes. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A29