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House of Houses
 
HNepantla
     

House of Houses

Re-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.

 

Nepantla

Re-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.

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