Rose Jacquez Cliburn, diagnosed with a type of muscular dystrophy, set out to write an autobiography of family and faith to share with her own children and grandchildren. What she's accomplished is a moving, lighthearted personal memoir of triumph that also serves as a reminder of times long ago.
The Houses of Rose: Autobiography of Rose Jacquez Cliburn is the author's testimony of how the support of family and faith helped her persevere. She shares experiences like discovering her sister had died while Cliburn, overcoming a severe case of tuberculosis, was recovering in a sanatorium.
The book is split up into "houses," each section chronicling Cliburn's life in each of the eight places she lived, including a mining community in West Virginia. The Houses of Rose presents the reader with snippets of times past, such as what it was like to grow up in a Catholic parochial school in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Cliburn's hope is that others will be inspired by her stories about how she let God and the love of relatives guide her long life, filled with its share of sadness but also ripe with joy. It's all there in
The Houses of Rose.
