Tazia and Gemma (eBook)

Ann S. Epstein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
274 Seiten
Vine Leaves Press (Verlag)
9781925417739 (ISBN)

Infos

It's 1911. Tazia survives fire, and she's unwed, pregnant and Italian in America.Tazia, a pregnant seventeen-year-old Italian immigrant and survivor of the Triangle Waist Company fire, flees New York, leaving her married lover to think she miscarried the baby he urged her to abort. To support herself and her daughter Gemma, Tazia takes low-wage jobs as she migrates westward.Gemma, now fifty, embarks on an eastward journey to find her father, eventually tracing her roots to Italy. In the end, Tazia no longer needs to escape her history, while Gemma finds that her identity leads back to her mother. Tazia and Gemma illuminates the tension between assimilation versus honoring one's heritage, and confronts the struggle for self-respect in the face of discrimination and demeaning work conditions-issues both timely and timeless.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: abandoned child finds mother • asch building • assimilation in america • books set in early 1900s • books set in italy • Discrimination • estranged father • factory work immigrants • facts about the triangle shirtwaist factory fire • family heritage • Family Tree • girl survives fire • historical fiction • Immigration • italian girl in america novels • italian historical fiction • Italian Immigrants • Italy • New York • New York City 1900s • New York City 1960s • Racism • teen pregnancy fiction • tracing family genealogy • tracing family roots • Triangle Waist Company fire • U.S. historical fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925417739 / 9781925417739