When Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old
Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what
she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious,
she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her
younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements
and factory work.
But even as she struggles, Rose finds small bright points in her
new life--at the movies with her working friends and in the honest
goals of her mentor, Gussie. Still, after her exhausting days as a
working girl, Rose must face the confusion of balancing her need
for simple fun with her more wary feelings about joining Gussie in
her fight for better working conditions.
When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an
all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when
everything around her is in ashes?
Sharp, poignant, and stirringly real, MJ Auch has written a
powerful historical novel that is hard to put down.
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