House of HousesRe-issued by
University of Arizona Press, 2008
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. |
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NepantlaRe-issued in Paperback Fall, 2008
As a Chicana educator, poet, mother, lecturer,
and native of El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora is a denizen of nepantla—a
Nahuatl word meaning "the land in the middle." In her first
collection of essays, Mora negotiates the middle land’s many
terrains exploring the personal issues and political
responsibilities she faces as a woman of color in the United States.
She explores both the preservation of her own Mexican American
culture and her encounters with other cultures. |
