The Saturday Evening Girls Club -

Jane Healey

Lake Union Publishing

2017

251 páginas

8h 22m

ISBN-10: B01KM5RACS

In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another.

For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives—and hope for a better future.

Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition.

The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they’ll draw strength—and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.

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The Saturday Evening Girls Club (2017): amizade além da religião

Boston (setembro/1908-março/1909): em North End a empreendedora Caprice, bela Maria (descendentes de italianos), estudiosa Ada e tímida Thea (de russos judeus) fazem parte do Clube Saturday Evening Girls (SEG) - que de fato existiu e foi fundado por Edith Guerrier e Helen Storrow e mantido pela venda das cerâmicas Paul Revere - desde adolescentes, algumas buscado uma vida americana além do trabalho exaustivo em fábricas e casamentos arranjados.
Entre pretendentes para Caprice ao estilo italiano, dívidas de jogo com a família mafiosa do bairro, desencontros amorosos e apresentação de peça teatral na casa de Isabella Stewart Gardner que hoje é um museu famoso de Boston, fica o cuidado de Jane Healey com as epígrafe dos capítulos com provérbios das sabedoria italiana e judaica resumindo a amizade pura além das diferenças religiosas.