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This novel is the selection for the Columbia City library book club for the April 22 meeting. I just finished listening to it on audio this afternoon and I have to admit that I cried more times through this book than I have any book or movie for a long time. Sometimes if a book or a movie is a tear jerker there will be one event or one part of the story line that causes one to get a little teary eyed. This book had several places where the tears just roll down one's cheeks. It is the story of Italian immigration early in the 20th Century. I have studied different waves of immigration to USA through my family tree research but most of my family came over late 1700s or early 1800s. Although I do have a couple of lines that came over late 1800s, no one that I have run across in my family came as recently as the 1900s, so I had not really explored this time frame of immigration much. The first difference I noticed was that the ship ride over was down to nine days. I also appreciated the way the author made Ellis Island seem very real. Adriana Trigiani was inspired to write this story from her grandparents experiences and the novel is a fictionalized account of their lives. I highly recommend this novel. Just be sure to have a big box of Kleenex near by. Please click on the author's name and the book title above to find out more information. And enjoy the video that follows.
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