Title: Messenger
Description: Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Single-parent families, Silver mines and mining, Croats, Family life, Maturation (Psychology), Children of single parents, Juvenile fiction, Poor families, Canada, fiction, Family life, fiction, Children's fiction, Single-parent families, fiction
Places: Canada, Ontario
Time periods: 20th century