The way of the emigrants
Subtitle: Badawi and Catherine Simon in America
By: Louis Farshee
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781449047726
Subjects: Immigrants; Biography; Lebanese Americans; Emigration and immigration
Notes: "Many of us are descendants of immigrants and some of us know the stories behind the people who came to America to start their new lives ... One of these stories is about Badawi and Catherine Simon. They emigrated from Lebanon, then a province of the Ottoman Empire, to the US shortly after their marriage. He was seventeen, she was sixteen ... In the pursuit of their new life they were touched by economic hardship in the 1890s, the Great War, Roaring Twenties and the Depression of the 1930s. The author retraced their steps through Mexico, France, Lebanon and across the US. His trek uncovered a trilogy of romance, scandal and deceit."--Back cover description.