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  • Ashes of Roses

  • By: MJ Auch
  • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
  • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Ashes of Roses

By: MJ Auch
Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
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Publisher's summary

The honest and compelling story of a young girl's newfound independence, from her entrance into a new country to her frightening involvement in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.

My heart filled with fear and hope at the same time. I had the feeling that I was brought to America for a purpose. Something important would happen to me here.

I remembered the words of the poem, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."

"Here we are, America," I whispered. "We're just exactly what you ordered."

When she arrives on Ellis Island as a 17-year-old Irish immigrant, Rose Nolan is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work.

When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when everything around her is in ashes?

©2002 Mary Jane Auch (P)2020 Tantor
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