Book Club

In the introduction Mary writes “Immigrant Woman is a fictionalized biography of my mother, but every incident in it is true, and derived from first-hand experience as her oldest child.” One aspect of the book “What kind of women come out of a highly-controlled, rigid atmosphere? Answer: passive women; dependent women. This is according to the books, the studies, the conclusions. None of that applied to the children of the Immigrant Woman. Never were daughters more rigidly, tightly controlled; never did any develop into more individualistic, independent women.”