by Lily R. Mason
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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