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Our good name: a novel / Catherine Marenghi

By:

Marenghi, Catherine

Material type: Text

TextSeries: San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--AuthorPublication details: Monee, IL : Arch Street Press , 2022Description: 214 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781938798399

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC MAR

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027347

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.

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