Daughter of immigrant Russians in NY in 1908 has conflicted feelings about mother's labor union involvement.

The book starts by giving the reader a brief idea of what life was like in the old country. Life on the Lower East Side---the hard work, trying to become an American, a generation gap, a workers' strike at a shirtwaist factory, making friends, understanding and appreciating the adults in a young woman's life---all are part of the rest of the book. The afterword briefly describes the actual strike described in the story.

A young immigrant, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement. ( )