Review: Haven't I read something just like this before?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
About half way through this book, I thought the plot and background seemed oddly familiar.  Then I remembered reading a story very, very similar (although Irish rather than Italian immigrants).  It was uncanny how familiar.  When I finished this book, I looked at the author's page and scrolled down to her book, Union.  That was it.  These two books are nearly identical except one if about Irish miners and one about Italian miners, but both about unions.  Anyway, this was okay, but Union is the better written book so if you are going to read one, read it.  And once you have read one, you have read the other just replace Irish with Italian.