The House on Mariposa Drive: A Restoration Memoir

For fans of Frances Mayes and Cheryl Strayed, a Mexican American architectural designer’s memoir of restoring a 120-year-old California farmhouse—and her journey of rebuilding herself alongside it after battles with lupus, cancer, and divorce.

120-year-old Victorian farmhouse in Redlands, California—they knew the house would change their lives. But they had no idea how completely.

A Mexico-born architectural designer who had survived lupus, two breast cancer diagnoses, clinical depression, a...