Thelma Muro

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Thelma Muro is an architectural designer and international theme park designer whose thirty-year career has taken her from Cal Poly Pomona to projects across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Born in Tepetongo, Zacatecas, Mexico, and raised in California from age twelve, she has survived lupus, two breast cancers, clinical depression, and divorce—and built a life of unlikely beauty alongside her husband, Juan. The House on Mariposa Drive is her debut. She lives in Redlands, California.

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Books by Thelma Muro

The House on Mariposa Drive

A Restoration Memoir

By Thelma Muro

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.

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