Schwartz, Rosetta

Rosetta Lachman was born in 1909 as the youngest child in a zany family of ten--two sisters and seven brother. Her parents emigrated to the United States from Latvia, and all of the children were born in Chicago. They didn't have much money but they had a wealth of humor. In 1989 at the age of 80 Rosetta committed her memoir to handwritten notes. Now you can share her hilarious account of a family that had so much fun the neighbors begged to come in and laugh with them. It wasn't all fun, however, and you get the full sense of this woman whose greatest talent was inspiring confidence and self-...