![]() ![]() To escape her mother’s fate, Maria starts dating a rich Italian man with questionable morals Thea considers an arranged marriage and quiet, scholarly Ada, who hides her university studies from her conservative Jewish father, falls in love with someone unsuitable. The friends’ close bond, and the generosity of the club’s patronesses, help them through rough times and difficult decisions. Her plans are put on hold when her boss decides to move to New York and close her store. She dreams of owning her own millinery shop and, eventually, marrying a man of her choosing-definitely not one of the Sicilian boys her father invites for dinner. All are caught between their parents’ old-world traditions and their own aspirations.Ĭaprice Russo, whose hat-designing talents are popular with Boston society ladies, is the engaging narrator. (Today it’s best known for the beautiful pottery produced there.) Healey’s winning debut brings readers into the lives of four women in their twenties, two Italian and two Jewish, whose friendship was cemented through this group. ![]() ![]() The Saturday Evening Girls Club, a real organization in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, was set up by progressive reformers to provide opportunities for daughters in working-class immigrant families. ![]()
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