Love, Loss, and Secrets Across America and Beyond
- Authors
- Ann S. Epstein
- Publisher
- Vine Leaves Press
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- facts about women suffrage;the great depression historical fiction;large families in fiction;the great depression era in canada;family in the 1930s;women rights in 1920;history of the lgbt movement;value of fatherhood;difficult fathers;estranged father;large family during the depression;novels set in the 1930s;novels set in the 1980s;novels set in the 1920s;novels set in toronto;historical events of the 20th century;social history canada;siblings jews in american wars;multi-generation immigrant families;jewish family stories;jewish family novel;search for missing boy;new york during world war 1;womens education during world war 1;navy world war 1;jewish family in america;teenagers in world war 1;women ww1;young men ww1;immigrants ww1;jewish people 1920s;jewish people ww1;novels set in 1917;novels set in 1918;novels set in 1919;novels set in 1920s;novels set in 1925;become a rabbi girl survives fire;italian girl in america novels;facts about the triangle shirtwaist factory fire;asch building;books set in early 1900s;books set in italy;tracing family roots;tracing family genealogy;teen pregnancy fiction;abandoned child finds mother;factory work immigrants;assimilation in america;estranged father;discrimination
- Date
- 2022-06-13T22:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.31 MB
- Lang
- en
Three gripping and emotional historical novels by Ann S. Epstein, about love, loss, and secrets across America, Italy, and Canada.
On the Shore follows the upheaval in an immigrant Jewish family when, without telling his family, 16-year-old Shmuel Levinson (a.k.a. Sam Lord) strives to prove his manhood, and escape his father's pressure that he become a rabbi, by enlisting in the Navy.
In Tazia and Gemma, 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.
In The Great Stork Derby an ambitious Emm Benbow convinces his wife, Izora, to enter the Great Stork Derby, a contest which offers a sizable cash award to the woman who has the most babies between 1926 and 1936. But soon his ambition turns into a ruthless obsession and addiction, and despite Izora's efforts, he is disappointed by his large family, and...