Fiction. Italians as indentured laborers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the 20th century? Entire families scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, building relationships with their neighbors, many the first generation of freed slaves? SWEET HOPE unleashes the little known story of Italians who came looking for a better life in La Terra Nuova and found hardship, misery, and their own form of slavery instead.
Author City: PASADENA, CA USA
Mary Bucci Bush received her M.A. and D.A. from the graduate program in creative writing at Syracuse University, where she worked with George Elliott and Raymond Carver. Her short story collection A Place of Light was published by Guernica Editions in 2006. She lives in Pasadena, California, and teaches creative writing at California State University Los Angeles.
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