Description:
Immigrant Hearts is a vintage love story that spans generations. It follows the lives of Luisa and Antonio, a seamstress and tailor in the garment industry who meet in 1920s Brooklyn. Their expansive romance stretches across more than 40 years, exploring the large and small things that compose a life-joy, loss, poverty, prosperity, prejudice...and love, always love. Inspired by true events, richly imagined by the author.
Brief description: Catherine Gigante-Brown is a Brooklyn-born writer of fiction, nonfiction, plays and poetry. This is her eighth Volossal novel. Her library includes "The El Trilogy" (The El, The Bells of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Roses), Different Drummer, Better than Sisters, Paul and Carol Go to Guatemala and Cry of Silence.