Lilies of the Bowery
by:
Lily R. Mason (author)
After an arduous voyage from Napoli in the summer of 1914, eighteen-year-old Joan Passerini arrives in New York City with her mother and brother in hopes of building a better life. Finding neither the milk or honey America had promised, Joan is quickly disenchanted with the city; the heat and...
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After an arduous voyage from Napoli in the summer of 1914, eighteen-year-old Joan Passerini arrives in New York City with her mother and brother in hopes of building a better life. Finding neither the milk or honey America had promised, Joan is quickly disenchanted with the city; the heat and noise and poverty are oppressive, and her father, who journeyed ahead to find wor
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781507851272 (1507851278)
ASIN: 1507851278
Pages no: 334
Edition language: English
Lilies of the Bowery tells the story of a young woman and her journey with her mother and brother from Italy to New York City. Joan Passerini, her mother Francesca and her brother Luca leave Italy to come to America to be with Giovanni Passerini, father, and husband, who came to America to find work...
I found this book super boring. The first person POV kept us almost solidly inside the protagonist's head with, in my opinion, not enough dialogue to avoid it being a whole lot of telling and not much showing. The narration was filled with so many mundane descriptions that I lost all interest in wh...
I was a bit torn about this one, as it starts so strong, with a tumultuous journey to the New World with a family searching for a better life. However, the middle third of this book gets bogged down with overly repetitive descriptions of daily life with mysterious clientele without it building to an...
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