A riveting account of one woman's attempt to make a new life for herself in America.
Mara never expects to find herself alone. But after she is abandoned by her husband, who left for the United States as an industrial laborer, she finds herself as an indentured servant to her in-laws. After over a decade of inhumane conditions, she flees from Eastern Europe to try and find her husband. As a female starting a new life in America, nothing comes easy. But her unbending strength leads to a life that she could never have imagined.
This inspiring immigrant's survival story, told by Mara's own daughter, will move readers with its sweeping tale of determination, violence, and triumph over one of the world's most turbulent periods of history.