@book{1145,
  keywords = {Roman Catholics, labor strikes, immigrants, World War I, Croatian Americans, domestic abuse, steel industry, priests, Black Americans},
  author = {Kristin Bair O'Keeffe},
  title = {Thirsty},
  abstract = {Klara, a 16-year-old newlywed, quickly learns that her new husband Drago is as malevolent as the father she left in the Old Country. The episodic novel demonstrates how she copes. Says <em>Publishers Weekly</em>, “O'Keeffe's debut gracefully encapsulates the working-class cycle of poverty and hopelessness in the lives of these hard-laboring, sympathetic wives and mothers.” The novel is set in Thirsty, the nickname for the immigrant enclave of a steel town called Pleasant Slopes.},
  year = {2009},
  pages = {207 p.},
  publisher = {Swallow Press},
  address = {Athens, OH},
  language = {English},
}