
This book has won many awards; A Pulitzer Prize, one of the 10 best books of 2017 by the New York Times, National Book Critics awards for biography’s and many others. It was not what I was expecting and I disliked it. I call it “The Bash Rose Wilder Lane” book. It is a half of interesting information about Laura Ingalls Wilder with a dash of Almanzo thrown in. Half of the unsavory, mentally unstable, strong willed and bossy Rose. Clearly the author did not like RWL by the language that she used. I don’t see this book as conveying much of the American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder as trying to persuade the reader of what a poor money handler and terrible daughter, political rebel Rose was. I finally got to the point that I would skip the long Rose tirades, they wore me out. The author should have just written a biography on Rose Wilder Lane and not disguise it as a book about her mother, truly disappointing.