Another thrifted book. I picked this one up because it looked interesting--it is a collection of sketches detailing Rosemary Taylor's childhood in 1900's Tucson, when the city was just being founded. Her mother ran a boarding house, partly for the money and part for the fun. Her dad was a entrepreneurial businessman. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of variation or reflection in these stories--they all work along the lines of "We had boarders, cool stuff happened, it was fun, Mother and Daddy were so smart." No speculation on what got Mother, a post Civil War daughter of a fine family and raised on a plantation, out to Arizona, and what prompted her to rent out every spare inch of her house. There's also few details of the time period included, which serves to rather homogenize the story.
This book was made into a movie too. Looks like they elaborated on characters and plot.
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