What does Joe's cabin represent to him in the novel, The Floating World?

The Boisdoré cabin symbolizes Joe’s Creole heritage. The cabin purchased by his ancestor, the first landowning Creole in the city. As Joe struggles with his identity as a black man in post-Katrina New Orleans, he also struggles with the idea of selling the cabin to afford medical care for his father; it is when his (Creole) daughter offers to stay with him, thus embracing her heritage, that these issues are resolved for Joe.