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Swimming in the moon

Schoenewaldt, Pamela, author

Overview

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 blossoms in school until her mother's demons return, fracturing Lucia's dreams. Yet Lucia is not alone in her struggle for a better life. All around her, friends and neighbors, new Americans, are demanding decent wages and working conditions. Lucia joins their battle, confronting risks and opportunities that will transform her and her world in ways she never imagined.

• Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: Household employees Italy Fiction. / Immigrants United States Fiction. / Women singers Fiction. / Working class Political activity United States Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780062202239, 0062202235

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3619.C4497 S94 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE