A Life of Her Own - Softcover

Hauser, Joan G.

 
9780615998145: A Life of Her Own
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0615998143 ISBN 13: 9780615998145
Verlag: Beach Plum Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This moving story of a girl’s quest for independence begins in a shtetl in Russia. After a tragedy, Minna Ruben and her family decide to flee to der goldener medina—the golden land—America—to seek safety, freedom, and success. Minna dreams of becoming a “real American” but the Rubens face many difficulties in their quest to succeed.

Eventually, they are forced to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Minna, facing disapproval from a member of her family and trapped by her job, fears she will never realize her dreams. At her darkest moment, she finds employment as a seamstress at a Fifth Avenue mansion. There she learns that wealth does not automatically solve every problem and bravely steps towards the future she has chosen.

This book offers an excellent description of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early twentieth century, home to many immigrants who came to the new world. The vitality and panoply of characters and customs found on those crowded streets are lovingly depicted by the author.

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Verlag
Beach Plum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0615998143
ISBN 13 
9780615998145
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
524
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