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A Novel
HarperCollins
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Irma Vitale
289 pages ISBN: 0062003992 EAN: 9780062003997 Kindle: B004CFA9Q4 Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical
“If you leave Opi, you’ll die with strangers,” Irma
Vitale’s mother always warned. But Irma is too poor and
too plain to marry and can’t find honest work her tiny
mountain village in Southern Italy. Barely twenty, she
must leave home bearing only native wit and astonishing
skill with a needle. Risking rough passage across the
Atlantic, a single woman in a strange land, Irma seeks a
new life sewing dresses for gentlewomen. Swept up in the crowded streets of nineteenth-century
America, Irma finds workshop servitude and miserable
wages, but also seeds of friendship in the raw immigrant
quarters. When her determination leads at last to Chicago,
Irma blossoms under the hand of an austere Alsatian
dressmaker, sewing fabrics and patterns more beautiful
than she’d ever imagined. Then this tenuous peace is
shattered. From the rubble, confronting human cruelty and
kindness, suffering and hope, a new Irma emerges,
nurturing a talent she’d never imagined and an unlikely
family, patched together by the common threads that unite
us all.
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