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The character Quash is an enslaved African, who was brought forcefully to New Amsterdam and is held by Thomas Master; his descendants become part of the New York cultural mix. As the novel progresses, more families are introduced: the Irish O'Donnels, German Kellers, Italian Carusos, German-Jewish Adlers, and Puerto Rican Campos.
The novel is set in the 1920s in Lower East Side of New York City, specifically, on Hester Street.The story takes place in three distinct settings: the tenements on New York's Lower East Side in Hester St. where readers assume the Smolinsky family settled when they first arrived to America, the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey where her father Reb purchased the grocery store, and Sara's college ...
[3] The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...
Burned! I didn't think people burned books any more. Only Nazis burn books. [1] On December 13, 1993, superintendent Ron Wimmer, of the Olathe (Kansas) School District, ordered the book removed from the high school library. [8] Wimmer said he made his decision in order to "avoid controversy", such as the public book burning. [9]
A new book by former President George W. Bush will highlight an issue which now sets him apart from many of his fellow Republicans — immigration. Former President Bush pays tribute to immigrants ...
Bulgarian Americans are Americans of full or partial Bulgarian descent. [3]For the 2000 United States Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, [4] while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry. [5]
Her debut novel, "Anagram Destiny," was released in September by Spark Press/Simon & Schuster. In the world of publishing, they say, "Write what you know," and Shah seemed to have followed that ...
Uprising is a young-adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. The novel is a fictionalized account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire . According to Maureen Paschal of The Washington Post , it "helps reinforce how immigrants have often struggled with hardship and unfairness".