{"product_id":"silk-stocking-9781504086431","title":"Silk Stocking","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeanne Charters\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sagas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree generations of Irish American women seek better lives in Boston, in this historical saga of hope, hardship, and love by the author of \u003ci\u003eLace Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mary Boland suffered aboard a coffin ship to escape famine and make her way to America. Her daughter, Nellie, was born in South Boston--a beautiful girl, smart enough to graduate from college when few women, let alone women of her background, could. But her glowing future as a teacher is ruined when she becomes pregnant--and she is forced to cope on her own as the baby's father disappears after returning to Ireland to fight for his nation's liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her subsequent rushed marriage to an ambitious politician will throw Nellie's life far off course--and reverberate in her mother's and daughter's lives as well. Nothing will ever be the same in this gripping conclusion to the Daughters of Ireland saga--a tale of poverty and wealth, opportunity and danger, and family and forbidden love set against the tumultuous backdrop of the late nineteenth-century Gilded Age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eShanty Gold\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in the Daughters of Ireland trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Charters interweaves many important topics--immigration, civil rights, women's rights--into her exciting novel . . . An evocative portrait of South Boston . . . Gripping.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The story of a young Irish girl's struggles told with an authentic, historically accurate voice.\" --Sallie Bissell, author of the Mary Crow series \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A wild ride of discovery, romance, and the search for a new way of life . . . with twists and turns along the way.\" --Susan Blexrud, author of the Fang series","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411265839255,"sku":"9781504086431","price":2025.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781504086431.webp?v=1768583464","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/silk-stocking-9781504086431","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}