You Were There Before My Eyes
A Novel
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Elizabeth Wiley
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Maria Riva
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A woman leaves her Italian village and enters a new world as an immigrant in Detroit in this sweeping novel by a New York Times best-selling author.
In a small village in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tradition. So when an opportunity presents itself to immigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind. Far away, in Henry Ford's factories in Michigan, a new kind of life is taking shape, and it offers gleaming promise for Jane and her young husband. Determined to survive, and even thrive, she will find herself seeking fulfillment and building a family while navigating not just a new language and country, but a world poised on the edge of economic and social revolution, with the Great War looming on the horizon.
From the chaos of Ellis Island to the melting pot of a Midwestern industrial city, You Were There Before My Eyes is rich with colorful characters and vivid period details, an authentic portrait of the immigrant experience that poignantly captures the ever-evolving nature of the American dream, and "[A] dazzling historical saga of love, adventure, war, hardship, and discovery" (Allan Levine).
©2017 Maria Riva (P)2020 Tantor
The novel was published in 2017, and I think that the description of leaders and their followers, be it in the field of politics or business, is still relevant today.
Authoress Riva, currently still alive at 100 years (b. 1924) is, for those who don't know, the only child of german movie and stage legend Marlene Dietrich. She herself left her homecountry as a 7 year old to accompany her mother to Hollywood. Her own life story (as well as many stories about Dietrich) is told in her first book, Meine Mutter Marlene/The Life.
Reviewing an audiobook can't be done without referencing the person or people who lend their voice(s) to a writers words. In this case, cudos to Elizabeth Wiley, who gives every of the many recurring characters their own "voice", complete with accents, vocal mannerisms and, if necessary, developing mastering of their new tongue.
Highly recommended!
An unexpected History Lesson
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