City of Slaughter: A Novel

by Drew: Cynthia

Overview

Fourteen-year-old Carsie Akselrod and her younger sister, Lilia, flee the Russian pogroms to live with relatives on New York's teeming, dangerous Lower East Side. Like many Jewish immigrant Americans in the early 1900s, the girls go to work in sweatshops, eventually taking jobs at the ill-fated Triangle Waist Company, scene of the infamous 1911 industrial fire that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers. Set against Tammany Hall politics and gangland crime, City of Slaughter is a tale of a woman torn by family, faith, and her drive to rise from poverty, succeed in business, and claim her place in New York's world of fashion and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564747570
Publisher:	SCB Distributors
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	571 KB

About the Author

Cynthia Drew's short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including Perigee, Middle English Review, and Taj Mahal. The winner of Rapid River's Short Fiction Prize, and Mountainland's Humor Prize, she teaches Creative Writing at UNC/Asheville's Reuter Ctr. She worked for several years in New York's garment district, where she became keenly aware of the sweatshops that even today are peopled by immigrants.