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Maria's Journey
Born into the Mexican Revolution, Maria Perez entered an arranged marriage at age fourteen to Miguel Arredondo. The couple and their tiny daughter immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, living in a boxcar while Miguel worked for a Texas railroad and eventually settling in East Chicago, Indiana, where Miguel worked for Inland Steel. Their story includes much of early-twentieth-century America: the rise of unions, the plunge into the Great Depression, the patriotism of World War II, and the starkness of McCarthyism. It is flavored by delivery men hawking fruit and ice, street sports, and Saturday matinees that began with newsreels. Immigration status colors every scene, adding to their story deportation and citizenship, generational problems unique to new immigrants, and a miraculous message of hope.
East Chicago
Once a landscape of dunes, marshes, and woodlands hugging the southern edge of Lake Michigan, the city of East Chicago was a developer's dream for the emerging steel industry. The industrial jobs provided a way out of poverty, but the area also offered parks, schools, neighborhoods, and civil organizations. Ammeson, born and raised in East Chicago, shows that the city had a sense of vitality and the essence that the American dream was available for all. -- adapted from back cover
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Silent Answers
A book of short stories is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Sebastian Costard's Silent Answers is a box of chocolates. I didn't read Costard's stories in the order you see here; I chose them randomly. It doesn't matter; each one was a new experience. I read The Triangle first and felt like a voyeur when a quirky woman entered the story and the life of a stressed attorney. Costard's twists and turns brought Kate Chopin's tales to mind. A story of coming to terms with death and lost friendships in Costard's Sarah's Folly might feel way too familiar for some readers. But the sweetness in this story gives hope to all who have gone through this kind of suffering. In...
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