The Rooming House Diaries: Life, Love & Secrets

By Bill Mathis

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1624204228
• ISBN13: 9781624204227
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"