Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Publication Date: March 17, 2015
Edition: Kindle (302 pages)
A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig AlbertMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
In A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert, the author takes the reader back to the creation of the 'Little House' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder that many of us so loved as children and even as adults. After the deaths of both Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, it was discovered that the 'Little House' books were a collaborative writing effort between mother and daughter. This was not known at the time the books were published. Rose Wilder Lane was an accomplished writer in her own right with short stories and full length novels to her credit.
The author weaves together the real and the imagined, and chronicles the lives of both women from Rose's childhood through her life as a writer, her relationship with her mother, her return to her parents home to help them during the difficult depression years, and her unplanned and, not altogether willing, collaboration with her mother on the writing of the 'Little House' books.
This book explores the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as it evolves from Rose's childhood into her life as an independent adult and back again as she returns home and spends years on her parents' farm as together they struggle against poverty and eek out a living during the 1930s depression era. This book is a rich blend of the historical and the fictional which I found both educational and captivating. Once I began reading, I had to continue because I was caught up in the time and place, and the mind set of the characters.
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