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Born into a musical family, her childhood was rich with influences ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mexican folk music, jazz, and opera. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer artistic curiosity blossomed early, as she and her siblings began performing their own music for anyone who would listen. Now, in this beautifully crafted memoir, Ronstadt tells the story of her wide-ranging and utterly unique musical journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRonstadt arrived in Los Angeles just as the folk-rock movement was beginning to bloom, paving the way for the development of country-rock. As part of the coterie of like-minded artists who played at the famed Troubadour club in West Hollywood, she helped define the musical style that dominated American music in the 1970s. 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It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food.\" — \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An album of loves for the high desert of Sonora and Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRock 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFeels Like Home\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 marvellous flavours 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing her bestselling musical memoir, \u003cem\u003eSimple Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. 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