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All around her, friends and neighbors, new Americans, are demanding decent wages and working conditions. A new historical novel from Pamela Schoenewaldt, the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers.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 mistr

Swimming in the Moon: A Novel

  • Title : Swimming in the Moon: A Novel
  • Author :
  • Rating : 4.74 (206 Vote)
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  • Format : Paperback
  • Pages : 341 Pages
  • Asin : 0062202235
  • Language : English

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All around her, friends and neighbors, new Americans, are demanding decent wages and working conditions. A new historical novel from Pamela Schoenewaldt, the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers.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. Lucia joins their battle, confronting risks and opportunities that will transform her and her world in ways she never imagined.. 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

(Sept.) . Once news of New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire reaches Cleveland, Lucia realizes her own neighbors deserve better treatment and helps lead a strike against the city's factory owners. Evoking the challenges new immigrants faced in early 20th century America, Schoenewaldt illustrates Lucia's poignant struggle between her ambitions and her loyalty to her mother with striking verisimilitude. From Publishers Weekly Lucia D'Angelo and her mother, Teresa, work as servants at a quiet seaside villa in Naples until Teresa's eruptive temper costs them their jobs and forces them to flee to America in Schoenewaldt's touching second novel (When We Were Strangers). A rich cast of characters and a ti

Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines in England, France, Italy, and the United States.

Pamela Schoenewaldt is the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers and Swimming in the Moon. She taught writing for the University of Maryland, European Division, and the University of Tennessee.

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