TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - labor strikes
KW - immigrants
KW - World War I
KW - Croatian Americans
KW - domestic abuse
KW - steel industry
KW - priests
KW - Black Americans
AU - Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
AB - 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.
C1 - 1883-1919
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Clairton
C4 - Literary; Women’s; Immigrant; Historical
CY - Athens, OH
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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.
PB - Swallow Press
PP - Athens, OH
PY - 2009
RN - Kristin Bair O'Keeffe (1966— ) was raised in Bethel Park, Allegheny County. She earned a BA in English at Indiana University Bloomington and a MFA in creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. After living in Shanghai, China for four years, she resides in Andover, Massachusetts.
EP - 207 p.
TI - Thirsty
ER -