The Rooming House Diaries: Life, Love & Secrets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781624204227)

Six fascinating and touching diaries are discovered in an old rooming house that detail the lives of the owners and tenants spanning over a century of change in Chicago's Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood. An unwed pregnant teen shows up; a teen from Paris, France appears, the result of a relationship during World War I; the first Mexican in the neighborhood is given a room and eventually inherits the place, his diary describes his young life running the streets in Tijuana, Mexico and how the rooming house served undocumented AIDS clients. The matriarch leaves a long-hidden diary that details her undisclosed life of brothels. Filled with love, life and family secrets, The Rooming House Diaries prove DNA does not always make a complete family.

Author: Bill Mathis
ISBN-10: 1624204228
ISBN-13: 9781624204227
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2019
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.97d