Isabel Aguilar
Roses and Thorns, two-and-a-half years in the making, is the third memoir written by writer/novelist, Barbara Carpenter. Without a Quarter in my Pocket, the memoirs of Dr. S. E. Rubio, a Cuban physician who escaped from Cuba in 1961, was released in 2008. A short time later, she was commissioned to write A Nickel Can of Pork and Beans, the memoirs of Bryan Davidson, founder of WJBD AM/FM, radio broadcasting station in Salem, Illinois. The book was published in 2011.
Carpenter is an...
