Rose Marie Tapia

Life Commitment Rose Marie Tapia

For two decades, Rose Marie Tapia has written novels focused on young readers and social issues. She now gives us is her most intricate project: Life of Commitment, a memoir about her mother, Rosa Rodríguez de Tapia. Creating the structure and the substantial content of a literary work are always enormous challenges. Yet, telling a story relating memories well within the heart is a much different task. Rosa Rodríguez de Tapia was a dedicated teacher, wife, mother, and friend. Together with Santiago, her husband, she formed a home sustained by love and multiple values. Each life is the result of the crossing of circumstances, illuminated or overshadowed by unique factors that can only be scaled along the way by understanding and compassion. With Life of Commitment, Rose Marie Tapia recounts her memories through a frank and conclusive, but not final, dialogue with her mother. She is integrating the testimony of family members and close friends to reveal the legacy of an exemplary woman.