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Hotel Brat Revisited is a personal narrative series exploring what it means to grow up living your father’s work, while living IN your father’s work. Through stories of family relocations, grand openings, and late-night lobby adventures, I revisit the beautiful, chaotic rhythm of life behind the scenes.

This isn’t a tell-all; but it does explore what it is like to grow up knowing that everything is temporary, and that home is where you make it.  It’s a love letter to every hotel employee that embraced an awkward and lonely kid, accepting her in a way her peers would not.  an industry and a childhood built on constant change, connection, and the unspoken code of care that every good host knows by heart.

Welcome to Hotel Brat Revisited, where a childhood of relocation following her father’s career is dissected…one hotel at a time.   Picture of Frank Rota and Jennifer Rota in Verona, New Jersey 1970