What is the importance of "The Big House" as noted in the memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto?

“The Big House” is the house where the author and his cousins were in many ways raised. It is the house where their grandmother lived. Nanny, as the author portrays her, opened her home and her life in order to make sure that her grandchildren had a place to go where they could feel safe, cared for, and attended to in terms of who they were, not in terms of what society and/or circumstances expected them to be.