Esto también es una casa

Javi lives in a wooden house above the family hardware store. But depending on the weather, his grandfather, the shootings, or his father's rage, the house can be upstairs or downstairs. Upstairs, his mother's name is Pilar; downstairs, she's a bombshell; upstairs, his father is a welding mask; downstairs, a ghost; upstairs, Javi changes his grandfather's diapers; downstairs, he scares off his mother's suitors; upstairs, he makes snow by rubbing foam blocks together; downstairs, he builds a beach with the sand they sell in sacks; upstairs, he's a cruel child; downstairs, a tender teenager; upstairs, he's a gringo; downstairs, a Puerto Rican.