House of Houses
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat MoraAs House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand. APoet MoraAs complex and dramatic family history comprises more than personal reminiscences: it also embraces resonant aspects of Mexican American history. Mora recounts her familyAs traumatic exodus from Mexico to escape the violence of Pancho Villa and his forces and their struggles to begin new lives in another country. To anchor her psychologically rich, dramatic, sometimes funny, often touching multigenerational tale, Mora uses the image of a houseAthe house of housesAduring a single year, a fruitful metaphor that allows her to dwell on the bright beauty of flowers, birds, and trees, emblems of the loving legacy of her nurturing family.AABooklist AMora has created an ingenious structure for these recollections of her extended family, of their lives and the tales they share about the familyAs history. Woven in with these memories are recipes, fragments of songs and poetry, folk remedies, and jokes, all of the small matters that most reveal a familyAs identity. In a language deftly mingling the natural cadences of speech and precise, poetic imagery, Mora believably summons up both a group of tough, loving, idiosyncratic survivors and a vivid, detailed portrait of life in the Southwest in [the last] century.A AKirkus ReviewsFrom there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand. APoet MoraAs complex and dramatic family history comprises more than ...
| Title | : | House of Houses |
| Author | : | Pat Mora |
| Publisher | : | University of Arizona Press - 2008 |
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