What is the genre of the novel?

Rosario Ferre's 1995 novel The House on the Lagoon is literary fiction, and it has elements of historical fiction in that it begins on the date that Puerto Ricans became American citizens in 1917 and continues well into the twentieth century as it follows the fictional Monfort and Mendizabal families through multiple generations. Literary fiction is separate from genre or commercial fiction in that its thematic concerns are deeper than works produced for the entertainment of mass audiences. Ferre's novel is concerned with questions regarding the dynamics of marriage, what it means to be a writer, love relationships, family relationships, the evolution of twentieth-century Puerto Rico, social class struggle, race, gender, and how all of these combine to produce the identities of the novel's major characters.