If you haven't entered the contest to win a free book, you'll want to move along to Newcastlewest Books and fill out the form. That's all you need to do, and the odds are fairly decent that you'll win yourself a free copy of a novel that will transport you to Chicago.
1890's Chicago, yes, but read a few pages and you'll soon realize that things haven't changed all that much. New arrivals, whether Irish or Mexican or Chinese, all experience the same difficulties in finding their place in the strange new world that is America.
And you'll notice that families haven't changed at all in the past hundred years. There are still expectations and burdens and duties that seem to have been assigned by an unseen hand. The pull of the Old World still tugs at the children born in the New World, to bring them back even as they do all they can to walk away.
The book is well worth the price of purchase, but if you can get it for nothing, why not give it a try? There's no strings attached. And the novel won't give you a hangover like that disgusting green beer.
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