Our good name: a novel
Marenghi, Catherine
Our good name: a novel / Catherine Marenghi - Monee, IL : Arch Street Press , 2022 - 214 p. ; 23 cm - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in the Gloria Grant Room - speciall collection of San Miguel authors
The story of Italian immigrants who leave behing their beloved Apennine village in the 1890s to find their place in a strange new country. From the squalid transatlantic voyage to the shock of Ells Island to the gritty factory town of Milford, MA, it is a tale of hardship and heart-wrenching losses at a time of tectonic socIal upheaval, including deadly labor union strikes, intense anti-immigrant sentiment, and the trial of their neighbor Nicola Sacco. A historical novel revealing a rarely told side of the Italian-American experience and the courage required to make a home in the New World.
English
9781938798399
Italian Americans----Fiction
Emigration and Immigration----Fiction
FIC MAR
Our good name: a novel / Catherine Marenghi - Monee, IL : Arch Street Press , 2022 - 214 p. ; 23 cm - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in the Gloria Grant Room - speciall collection of San Miguel authors
The story of Italian immigrants who leave behing their beloved Apennine village in the 1890s to find their place in a strange new country. From the squalid transatlantic voyage to the shock of Ells Island to the gritty factory town of Milford, MA, it is a tale of hardship and heart-wrenching losses at a time of tectonic socIal upheaval, including deadly labor union strikes, intense anti-immigrant sentiment, and the trial of their neighbor Nicola Sacco. A historical novel revealing a rarely told side of the Italian-American experience and the courage required to make a home in the New World.
English
9781938798399
Italian Americans----Fiction
Emigration and Immigration----Fiction
FIC MAR
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