Historical Fiction
Swimming in the Moon
2013·341 pages
A determined Italian immigrant girl and her gifted, troubled mother build a new life in early-1900s Cleveland amid vaudeville and labor strife.
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A determined Italian immigrant girl and her gifted, troubled mother build a new life in early-1900s Cleveland amid vaudeville and labor strife.
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Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy mistress with song. But volatile tempers force them to flee, exchanging their warm, gilded cage for the cold winds off Lake Erie and Cleveland's restless immigrant quarters. With a voice as soaring and varied as her moods, Teresa transforms herself into the Naples Nightingale on the vaudeville circuit. Clever and hardworking, Lucia blosso...
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Labor unrest and peril referenced; no graphic violence
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Central focus on garment workers’ strikes and immigrant labor rights
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Abusive employer fled; mother’s mental decline; harsh factory conditions
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