"Cezanne Cardona is a writer who has surpassed the category of promise: a resounding writer who deserves to be read, applauded, respected," Luis Rafael Sánchez. Javi lives in a wooden house above the hardware store that his mother runs. But depending on the weather, his grandfather, the shootings, or his father's fury, Javi's house can be up or down. Upstairs his mother is called Pilar, downstairs she is a Bombshell Girl; upstairs his father is a welding mask, downstairs a ghost; upstairs Javi changes his grandfather's diapers, downstairs he scares away suitors from his mother; upstairs he makes snow by rubbing foam blocks, downstairs he builds a beach with the sand they sell in sacks; upstairs Javi is a cruel child, downstairs he is a tender teenager; upstairs he is gringo and downstairs Puerto Rican. This is also a house is a tour de force between a son and a mother, between a house and a hardware store, between what can be fixed and what never will be, between pain and tenderness, and between the beauty and violence of living in the Caribbean. With clean and precise, deep and subtle prose, this novel puts Nabokov's commandment into action: "caress the details, the divine details."

• Author: Cezanne Cardona
• Publisher: Planeta Publishing
• Publication date: September 23, 2025
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9786073931144
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