num_pages: 296
description: A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors, this book is about oppression 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.
language: English
title: House of Houses
titlecomplete: House of Houses
genres: Literature, Biography, Memoir, Magical Realism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 34
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
publisher: Beacon Pr