Threadbare: A Gilded City Series

By Jane Loeb Rubin

Book Overview

Threadbare recounts the story of Tillie, an innocent but tenacious young girl who chooses to marry Abe, a lonely widower, rather than follow her farming community north as urban development transforms rural Harlem. Convinced Abe will help her attend high school on the Lower East Side, Tillie faces a rude awakening amidst the filth and disease of the tenements. Through the following decades, she turns her energy and intelligence to partnering with Abe as he builds a thriving button business while she and her neighbor Sadie launch a unique garment company. Pushing back against anti-Semitic Victorian values dominating the time, Tillie acquires wealth only to have her life upended by a devastating, unforeseen challenge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1685125816
• ISBN13: 9781685125813
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Level Best - Historia
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"