The Saturday Evening Girls Club:A Novel by Jane Healey

The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel

Jane Healey

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.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Saturday Evening Girls Club. Healey did a remarkable job of researching the background and incorporated actual facts into a creative believable story.
Fall in love with the strong girls and their journeys from childhood to adulthood. Each with their own family dynamic and the old traditions while they try to embrace the American dreams.
I totally loved the blend of the truth with the fiction. It is so convincing that you never know the difference until you read the author's letter at the end of the book.
So grab your favorite book nook, drink, and settle in to be transported to another time and place.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for my digital copy for an honest review.

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