Land of promise
By: Joan Lowery Nixon.
Series: Ellis Island
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Description: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.