Feels Like Home, Linda Ronstadt
Feels Like Home, Linda Ronstadt
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Feels Like Home
A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands

Author: Linda Ronstadt, Lawrence Downes

Narrator: Kathe Mazur

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Heyday

Published: 10/30/2022


Synopsis

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new memoir."The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food."—The New York Times"The book is many things at once. It’s a portrait of a place, the Sonoran Desert, and it’s a genealogy of sorts, an archival romp through Ronstadt’s family history."—Vogue"An album of loves for the high desert of Sonora and Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson."—NPRIn Feels Like Home, Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt’s musical heritage. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams, this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt’s recollections of people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest of the United States. This road trip through the desert, written in collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen, features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of revelations for Ronstadt’s admirers. If this book were a radio signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt’s hometown of Tucson. It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.

About Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt has received twelve Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Emmy Award, as well as several Tony and Golden Globe nominations. She lives in San Francisco with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gronk

I expected this to be a description of Ronstandt's childhood but this was much more interesting than that. This is a description of a region of the Sonoran Desert spanning the border between Arizona and Mexico. It is a history lesson of the people that lived there. It is a personal history of multip......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

Meaningful educational material presented in a charming, conversational style. This book is a quick read (I read it in 2 days and I'm usually a slow reader!) with beautiful photographs and compelling exposition, sprinkled throughout with interesting recipes that are also an essential part of the nar......more

Goodreads review by Vicky

"Our generation would become the first group of Mexican Americans to grow up comfortable with both sides of that term. Seeing Ronstadt sing in Spanish on national television, her album cover published in newspapers, taught us that it was OK to be unapologetically Mexican, no matter how assimilated w......more