This was one of my first choices for book club this year, but alas, with only one copy in the public library, it just wasn't available enough to be a choice.
But holy cow, what a great book club book this would be! Rose was an amazing woman--she traveled extensively throughout her life, including visiting Baghdad in the early 1920s. The snippets of writing from letters, journals and published works reveal a strong, independent mind.
And oh yes, she's the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Their mother/daughter relationship was far from conventional, and that in itself was fascinating. Rose worked so hard to hide her part in the writing of the Little House book.
Though I know this book is about Rose, I would have liked a bit more about her parents. Both Laura and Almanzo (especially Almanzo) were shadowy. I thought periodically of Eden's Outcasts and how that dual biography worked. I would love to one day see a dual biography of Rose and Laura, because one woman's story can't be told without the other.
Highly recommended.