This book is a literary reflections based on memory, exile and the imprint that the memory of others leaves on our skin, having as a central axis the memoirs of the father (a revolutionary kid during the Spanish Civil War).
What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One’s Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes.
