The 11-time Grammy-winner and Tucson native was at the Tucson Festival of Books to talk about her new memoir 'Feels Like Home' with co-author Lawrence Downes.
Cathalena E. Burch Linda Ronstadt fans arrived early on Sunday, forming lines that snaked around both sides of the University of Arizona Memorial Student Union and clogged the walkways at the Tucson Festival of Books.
People are also reading… Moderated by former Arizona Daily Star columnist Ernesto Portillo, the conversation meandered from her 2019 trip to Banámichi on the Rio Sonora — five hours from Tucson by car — that inspired her to write"Feels Like Home", to her family's history in Tucson, from brother Peter serving as Tucson police chief to her grandfather and father running the family's namesake hardware store on the downtown footprint that is now the Ronstadt Transit Center.
Throughout the hourlong presentation, Ronstadt, who has Parkinson's-like progressive supranuclear palsy, had to strain to hear audience members' questions and those from Portillo and Downes, who were sitting next to her at a table on the stage. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio She and Downes had initially set out to write a Sonoran-Tucson cookbook, but after finding letters from her great-grandmother to her grandfather when he immigrated to Tucson as a teen, and when she reflected on the Ronstadt family's deep history in the region, her cookbook turned into what she and Downes like to call an"edible memoir.
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