Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
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History Lesson

Where's the movie?

A Moving Story, Wonderfully Documented

A striking piece of labor history!

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
Bruce Watson
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0143037358

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Told here for the first time, the riveting story of the most remarkable strike in American history

On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the “Bread and Roses” strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.

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the hobo philosopher.......2007-08-22

I was raised in Lawrence. My grandmother was a polish immigrant weaver at the Wood Mill and my grandfather was an Irish plant foreman at the Arlington Mills as was my father. I have been reading and researching Lawrence for some time. In fact in my book about growing up in Lawrence "A Summer with Charlie" now listed on Amazon, I include a short synopsis of the Strike of 1912. When I saw Mr. Watson's book advertised, I had to have it. He did an excellent job as did Mr. Moran on "The Belles of New England". If you really want some fun books about Lawrence get Images of America, Lawrence Massachusetts by Ken Skulski and friends. These are two volumes full of old pictures and descriptions of good old Lawrence. Whenever I get nostalgic and lonely for the old days and the good times I go over and start browsing through one of these volumes.
Bruce Watson's book is much the same - I loved walking with the strikers up and down all those familiar streets and learning about the history of my old hometown. This book should be a required reading at Lawrence High and Central Catholic, that's for sure.

History Lesson.......2006-08-16

I grew up in Lawrence and had several members of my family work in the woolen mills....

Although the strike was not talked about, I was very aware of how hard the work was and how much sacrifice was made by each family.

Sadly, the history of the strike was not taught in our classrooms - I strongly believe that it is as relevant today..... I urge everyone to read this book and to take it to your heart. Bruce Watson did an extraordinary job presenting this story.

I always was and always will be proud to be a member of one of those hardworking immigrant families.....and continue to be proud to have been raised in Lawrence.

Where's the movie? .......2006-06-07

This is a surprisingly exciting read. A 10 star book, at least. I can't imagine this history being told better although I don't know what others have written about this strike, other than a brief reference from the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). Watson captures the importance of the IWW to this strike but also shows the great problems that the IWW had in holding on to the strikers after the strike ended.

So much detail but it flows so well. Watson seems to largely let the details tell the story rather than editorialize. This is history with the emphasis on history and not salesmanship. This is effectively a "you are there" episode accomplished in text.

What motivated Bruce Watson to do such exceptional work? I suspect that, unlike the author of "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life", Bruce Watson did not get anything like a $500,000 advance for "Bread and Roses". We need more people like Bruce Watson. And more money directed to support them: so buy this book!

So much about U.S. History I'm ignorant of. That a Kansas Socialist newspaper was our most popular weekly. That the IWW, afer having so much success in Lawrence, would be nearly crushed by the federal government. That one young man of the IWW, Joseph Ettor, would have such a profound influence of the Lawrence strike but die largely forgotten. That so many women would play important roles in a strike at this time. That within a year of the 1912 strike, the Lawrence strikers would be in denial as the IWW membership in their city plummeted: but there was a lasting impact on the strike on wages and working conditions in other cities, afraid of what the IWW and people of Lawrence had done.

The strike went from just Jan 12, 1912 to March 14 of the same year. But so much happened that it is amazing Watson was able to present it all clearly.

Imagine that after holding to such a hard position in 1912, the mill owner William Wood, would, about seven years later give his employees insurance, maternity benefits, sick pay, help them buy homes, provide English lessons. Yet die by suicide within another decade after losing his children.

These are powerful facts powerfully presented. At a time when globalism is weakening labor in the U.S. and everywhere else in the world, it seems worthwhile to learn what people did. And don't forget what Bruce Watson has done, by bringing that event to life again.

A Moving Story, Wonderfully Documented .......2006-03-21

What can I add to the laudatory reviews that have already appreared about this excellent work? Bruce Watson has done a masterful job of presenting this important (though often forgotten) episode in American history in a moving and engaging manner. This book should be welcomed by serious scholars and casual readers alike. Watson's style is intelligent and straightforward, but he is also a seasoned storyteller, who is able to open our eyes to the unmistakble human story behind these historical events. We never lose sight of the human faces on both sides of the strike lines here, for better or for worse. Watson's sympathies are obviously with the destitute and downtrodden workers of Lawrence. But his tone is never shrill or partisan, and his documentation is first rate-- thorough and meticulous almost to a fault (Do we really need ALL of these footnotes? Probably so.) We too often forget at what a high price our "American dream" was purchased. How much less prosperous and comfortable our lives would be had earlier generations not dared to stand up to the powers that be. Watson does a wonderful job of reminding us of the price that those who came before us have paid-- and of our need to continue their battle for justice in our own time.

A striking piece of labor history!.......2006-02-13

Having grown up in Lawrence, I enjoyed reading this account of the strike and the bravery of the strikers. Mr. Watson does an admirable job in presenting the evidence and I highly recommend this book.

However, I would like to caution reviewers such as J. Windsor of Seattle, WA who claim that the Lawrence strike occurred during `free market' conditions. This is an erroneous statement; but the reviewer is not alone in thinking that the Robber Barron era was a period of free markets. U.S. style capitalism has little to do with free markets and everything with maintaining elite privilege.

The U.S. has had a regulated economy since at least Alexander Hamilton's time, who argued for a National Bank and a commitment to economic growth through protectionist tariffs, subsidies to industry, and other measures recommended in his Report on Manufactures to the U.S. Congress.

The so-called Robber Baron era was no different with capitalists receiving state interventions in various ways.

The symbiosis between the state and capital can be illustration by such pieces of federal legislation as the Copyright Act, the Indian Removal Act, the Pacific Railway Act, the McKinley tariff, and the Federal Reserve Act.

The lesson is not more state regulations to help workers. Rather, it is to do away with the state since capitalism would not function without it and vice versa.

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Thank you for more.
White Lace and Promises...
Incredibly self conscious irritating little tome
A wonderful read with absorbing plot, romance, historical texture
Wonderful

Bread and Dreams
Jonatha Ceely
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“A lovely book.” raved Anne Rivers Siddons about Mina, Jonatha Ceely’s luminous debut novel. “Suspenseful…evocative…meticulously researched,” praised the Boston Globe. Now Ceely returns to the tumultuous mid-nineteenth- century landscape and the world of an unforgettable Irish girl named Mina Pigot. Appealing to mind, sense, and emotion, Bread and Dreams is a sumptuous novel of love and food, loss, hunger, and hope.

In 1848, a time when sail was giving way to the swift power of steam, Mina boards the sailing ship Victoria, headed for a new life in America. Orphaned and alone, under the protection of her friend Mr. Serle, Mina is, like the Victoria, at the mercy of the winds of fate. But what awaits both Mina and her protector in New York is a world rich with opportunity and danger.

As Mr. Serle, a master chef, finds work in a bustling hotel, Mina tries the life of a salesgirl and then joins the downstairs kitchen of a wealthy family, where she soon proves her exquisite touch with food. But mysteries swirl all around the Westervelt home, and soon they engulf Mina too. As she tries to navigate the shoals and eddies of hidden affairs and powerful secrets, and as her feelings for the mysterious Mr. Serle subtly begin to shift, a remarkable series of events begins to unfold. For Mina, an extraordinary adventure begins, one that will take her far away from New York—and bring a sudden, surprising change of heart…and an unexpected gift of love and responsibility.

From the gaslit streets of old New York to the cargo-crowded waterways of the Erie Canal, from one man fighting a personal battle of faith, duty, and desire to another scarred in body and soul by was, Bread and Dreams is filled with marvelously drawn characters and vivid images. And in the keenly observant, steadfast Mina Pigot we are given a narrator to treasure—and a brilliant guide into the heart and soul of America.

PRAISE FOR JONATHA CEELY’S FIRST NOVEL
MINA

“Jonatha Ceely has caught perfectly the beauty, cruelty, and the very essence of one England about to transmute into another. A lovely book.”—Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Islands

“Suspenseful…evocative…vivid.”—Boston Globe

“Captures the period perfectly with vivid description and minute historical detail.”—Booklist

“Absorbing and suspenseful…filled with vivid and surprising characters struggling to find their way amid the social turmoil of the time.” —Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light

“The hardships of poverty and displacement are tempered with hope, determination and the will to survive in this well-researched debut historical novel. Ceely’s prose is graceful…and fans of the genre will appreciate [her] light touch and historical consistency. —Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition.

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JONATHA CEELY grew up in Kingston, Ontario, and has lived in Turkey and Italy. She is a former teacher and administrator who lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, a composer. Her debut novel, Mina, is available in trade paperback from Dell.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Thank you for more........2007-03-02

I wanted a follow up to Mina and I thoroughly enjoyed Bread and Dreams. I was completely caught up in Mina and Mr. Serle. Note: I can't usually be bothered to review a book.

White Lace and Promises..........2006-10-22

Love is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by love, life holds together and advances. This takes place in the mid-19th century during the period of immigration of the Irish to America. Mina Pegot came as an orphan on the voyage and felt adrift in the winds of fate, hungry for life and sustenance in 1848. Full of hope and adaptable in this new land, she's trained by her mentor, a master chef, after she arrives with him in New York on November 16.

Purportedly based on a handwritten journal hidden in a cavity beside a fireplace on which was written 'Mina's Book, A Gift From Mr. Serle 10-10-48). After an abortive try as a sales clerk in the city at the age of 17, she finds employment in the kitchen of a wealthy family in a country house. All houses hold secrets like hidden passages. The places we live in change us as we try to change them to accomodate our needs.

Her adventures on the fringes of the Westervelt family bring her unexpected gifts of love. She brings the world of gaslit streets of old New York as seen through the eyes of innocence of an honest woman. What could be more dangerous? If you can keep an eye on the difference between opinions and what has been verified, you'll be a lot happier, and life won't seem so mysterious. Much of what passes for true is something someone wants us to believe, or something we want to believe. Straight away, you could resolve a lot of mystery by keeping track of all the things you want to be true. This way, you'll be able to recognise them when you see them, and apply some reasoning, logic and discernment.
These would be good tools to keep around the next few weeks.

"The Bible -- the Old Testament to you -- does not include hell. The Talmud of 'Genenna, where the evil are purified. Some of our folktales include ideas of heaven and a sort of hell (called purgatory), but not in the religion itself. There is no hell with fire, devils, and sinners cast down into the flames. The Baptists think so! We believe that we must live in the world we are given as best we can. I suppose that for me hell would be to choose evil and to live out my life on earth knowing that I had deliberately done wrong." Apparently, her Mr. Serle did not know anything about forgiveness.

Incredibly self conscious irritating little tome.......2006-04-25

I was annoyed by this book from the first paragraph.
It began with the voice of an apparantly childless woman who is, with her husband, in the process of updating a 150-odd year old house.
From the get-go you are presented with the obvious "culture" of her educated yuppy We-work-in-the-city-but-have-enough-character-(and money!)to-purchase-and-do-the-work-ourselves-fixin'-up-an-old-house-that-holdsa-Big-Secret-blah-blah-blah.
How very tiresome.
You might say that it was obviously not tiresome enough at that point, because I continued reading. Frankly, I am a voracious reader, and I had nothing else in the house I had not already read.I prefer the stimulation of further annoyance over sheer boredom. So onward I went, en-furied with every word till the bitter end, mad enough to actually take the time to write a review.
We go further then, to the words of Our Heroine. Apparantly, in the mid 1800's poor uneducated Irish girls who were so low class that they were starving in the Great Irish Famine and whose family died from their cottage being burned without a peep from the local authorities, and who had to run for their lives to end up as a servant in the kitchen in a Big House, also have the capacity to be one of the most wispy intellectual well spoken individuals who write with a delicate and compelling (haha) hand in a journal in sheer dogged imitation of someone who is...well from the upper classes and well educated.
Kind of reminds me of those folks who live in trailers, aspire ridiculously to cultural heights, taking speech lessons to make themselves sound like they are from a better strata of society, put on airs, but have unfortunate tendencies to act out on their still grimy roots by behaving in some rather unsociable ways....like plagerizing, repeated cheating on spouses, and drinking way too much cheap whisky. All very fun of course, but let's call a spade a spade and a poor trashy girl from the wrong side of the tracks exactly what she is: poor and trashy and cunning enough to imitate better people.

Beyond that, the interaction between characters...well..further annoyed me.
There are attributes that some people( like the author of this book) consider to be Great Equalizers: Beauty, talant, intelligence, character.
Clearly the author intends that our poor Irish girl with her improbable intellect and courage has within her a Great Equalizer. She is paired with someone else who has been also Greatly Equalized.
I think that is nice. I mean it. It is Nice. They both end up in the same place, below stairs, in the kitchen of a Big House.
Wait a minute, they look to me like they have gone from one Big House kitchen to ANOTHER Big House kitchen. Kinda like going from the fryin' pan to the fire.
Naturally Our Heroine then gains not only love and respect but Fame as her stunning culinary talants are simmered in an unlikely pot of Being Noticed By Important People.
Which is ALSO nice. But unlikely. And irriatating.
Why am I so irritated, you ask? Really, you wonder, what is making me steam here?
It is the Voice of the author rudely intruding into what could REALLY have been an interesting and pleasing storyline. The VOICE of the author intrudes SO much, in the guise of the Our Poor Irish Girl, that she simply has become the puppet instilled with the educated intellect of someone with a great deal of education, studied intellect and Yuppy experience. I don't like it at all...
However, some of you very well might. I suggest you find yourself a double skim milk latte with fat free foam, an absurdly HUGE cranberry muffin with crumbs on top, a quiet overly fussy room patterned with big flowers on all of the furnishing and just SINK yourselves down into a overstuffed chair on a rainy day and just absolutely DEVOUR latte, muffin and the sweet pap of this novel.
Indeedy, it could be an experince that leave an interesting long term taste in your mouth for further such readings. I recommend the literary archives of Brown University and the endless prattling self aggrandizing papers of London history colleges.

A wonderful read with absorbing plot, romance, historical texture.......2006-04-15

Ceely's Bread and Dreams is a wonderful novel in itself though it is also immensely satisfying for those who finished MINA eager to know what happens in the new world. Other reviewers have written about the characters and plot. I'd like, therefore, to note that the writing is subtly elegant. You're sailing so smoothly that you don't even notice the sentence structure and language developing as Mina does, nor the echoes of nineteenth century cadence and richness. I'd also like to note that the depth of historical research makes this novel have much more texture, vividness, and authenticity than most historical novels. From the tasty recipes and culinary skills needed in a wealthy family's kitchen, to the hardship endured by a Civil War veteran and his wife, Ceely makes you enter into and believe in the world she's created; but she never falls into the trap of having undigested lumps of information. It's all folded in as smoothly as one of Mina's smooth desserts.

Wonderful.......2006-03-10

If you enjoyed Mina, then don't hesitate to pick up this book! It doesn't disappoint. The only thing I could say against it is that there are a few too many happy coincidences to be entirely realistic. However this didn't spoil my enjoyment of the story. I read a lot of books and I would have to say that both Mina and Bread & Dreams are up there with my favourites.

Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe

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An incredible tour of hungry Europe -- Hell, really

Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
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In a rich and engaging book that illuminates the lives and attitudes of peasants in preindustrial Europe, Piero Camporesi makes the unexpected and fascinating claim that these people lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their very hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to infants and children, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday lives of peasants, beggars, and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams.

"Camporesi is as much a poet as a historian. . . . His appeal is to the senses as well as to the mind. . . . Fascinating in its details and compelling in its overall message."—Vivian Nutton, Times Literary Supplement

"It is not often that an academic monograph in history is also a book to fascinate the discriminating general reader. Bread of Dreams is just that."—Kenneth McNaught, Toronto Star

"Not religion but bread was the opiate of the poor, Mr. Camporesi argues. . . . Food has always been a social and mythological construct that conditions what we vainly imagine to be matters of personal taste. Our hunger for such works should tell us that food is not only good but essential to think and to read as if our lives depended on it, which they do."—Betty Fussell, New York Times Book Review

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An incredible tour of hungry Europe -- Hell, really.......1997-11-22

This scholarly and amazing book ranges through pre-modern Southern Europe, focussing not on aristocrats but rather on ordinary folk: peasants, city-dwellers, and the many beggars and poor people of Italy and to a lesser degree, France. Camporesi posits a startling theory: Europeans lived in various ongoing states of "collective vertigo," hallucination and illness brought on by starvation or the eating of tainted foodstuffs, commonplace at that time. This state of affairs, Camporesi asserts, was promoted and exacerbated by various medical, social, and religious establishments.(The medical establishment of Bologna, for example, codified the foods 'medically' appropriate for rich and poor, resulting in additional loss of life.) Hunger was the central organizing principle in the lives of so many. The notorious famine years were times of acute rather than chronic starvation -- and "incredible and repugnant substances" were often eaten, often with fatal results. It's all here : "Terrible noises, worms, vermin, ghosts and goblins," opiates, visions, toxic brews, exorisms, violence, and always death and more death. Christianity's scant words of encouragement are quoted, too. This study is replete with evidence from literature, political history, the history of medicine and religion, and contemporary accounts. It's well-organized and elegantly presented. No illustrations, but the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would work well. A great book.

Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch

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The Small Business Bible
A "MUST READ" FOR ANYONE IN BUSINESS OR THINKING ABOUT IT!
Fantastic!!

Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter: Recipes for Running a Successful Business from Scratch
Ellen V Springer
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There are no shortage of ?how to? books on business. They are abundant. Perhaps, even overly abundant. The challenge is finding one that shares both the functional knowledge and the practical insights needed to start or maintain a small business. Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread and Butter is one such book. Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread and Butter serves both as a ?how-to guide? for those just starting businesses and as a reference guide for managers of established small businesses who need a refresher on addressing the fundamental challenges that they face. Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread and Butter walks the reader through the life cycle of a business from conception of the business model to a transfer in ownership.

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The Small Business Bible.......2007-05-18

This book is a comprehensive reference for the aspiring small busines owner. It covers topics like: how to create a company, how to run it, how to protect it, what technologies to use, what best practices to use and more. Ellen also has a way of keeping things simple, telling you what you tasks may want to handle yourself and which ones you should seek professional help with. I wish I had this book when I first started any of my businesses. It sure would have made life a lot easier.

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A "MUST READ" FOR ANYONE IN BUSINESS OR THINKING ABOUT IT!.......2007-04-07

I am a small business consultant. If every new business owner, or prospective new business owner, followed the practical advice in "Turning Your Dream Business into your Bread & Butter", I'd probably need to find a different line of work! This easy, "How-To" guide is packed full of essential information. It is a comprehensive resouce guide that I plan to gift to my new clients and it is now on my required reading list. Ellen has done a masterful job at putting it all together in a logical, readable way.

Fantastic!!.......2007-01-25

This book is the perfect tool for a budding entrepreneur or small business owner to know what they're getting into and to end up with business success - perfect for self-help, or makes a great gift - I bought it as a gift for an entrepreneurial friend and she LOVES it!! I ended up buying another copy for myself :)

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I was disapointed
Wonderful read
slender volume with lingering themes

Dreams of Bread and Fire
Nancy Kricorian
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Ani Silver is a young American woman whose half-Jewish, half-Armenian heritage seems a mere footnote to her own identity. But when the dark shadows of history insinuate themselves into her otherwise peaceful life, she is propelled into a profound and passionate series of journeys-a quest for a long-dead father, a search for the clues of a nearly forgotten genocide, and a love threatened by a quietly gathering storm of murder and retribution. After college, Ani leaves for a year in Paris, taking along her boyfriend's pledge of fidelity and the promise of their future together. When she receives a letter from him ending their relationship, she falls into a series of romantic misadventures. It is not long before Ani reconnects with a childhood friend, an elusive and intriguing character whose preoccupation with the Armenian heritage they share provides Ani with a new connection to her identity-even as she begins to suspect that he has a secret, and dangerous, identity himself. Both funny and heartbreaking, clear through to its bold and exquisite conclusion, Dreams of Bread and Fire is an irresistible novel of passion, ideals, and the temptations—and dangers—of trying to outrun our origins.

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I was disapointed.......2003-08-25

I loved Zabelle...one of the few books that I cried like a baby after reading, but this latest one left me with a feeling that it was not complete. If you liked Zabelle and have an interest in the Armenian genocide then please do yourself a big favor and read "Rise the Euphrates" as beautiful and painful book as Zabelle.

Wonderful read.......2003-08-07

After Zabelle, I was dying to read Dreams of Bread and Fire and while at first I was a little unsure about the Paris episodes and the love affair, I was very excited by the second half of the book.
The main character, Ani, is an interesting character who seems to come alive halfway into the book. The New York episodes are particularly riveting.
The only shocking aspect (and I don't mean scary) is the ending, I hope there is a sequel because at the end it feels like the real Ani is coming of age.
The book is a good read with well-crafted prose. Kricorian finds some interesting angles, though the Paris episodes make me thankful my college years are far behind me becauase they were a little pretentious.

slender volume with lingering themes.......2003-06-30

After coming across an interview with the author in the webzine, ..., I was sufficiently intrigued to pick up her book, Dreams of Bread and Fire. I could not put it down until I had completed it. At certain points, I grinned or even felt tears come to my eyes in recognition of some of the themes that Ms Kricorian deftly weaves into a compelling narrative--not necessarily the themes that relate specifically to Armenian history, but the universal ones of self-realization and identity, how they relate to relationships and the search for love, the need to belong and the choices inherent in one's background and "Old World" heritage.

Ms. Kricorian gives enough details to form carefully observed and vivid depictions of characters without a single wrong note; this allows for a very credible and engaging portrayal of the main character's relationships that are formed and transformed over the course of the book. Some of my favorite moments occur between the main character, Ani, and her comic-tragic grandmother (an short glossary is provided at the back of the book for added enjoyment of her colorful exclamations) and also between Ani and Sydney, the little American girl she is a nanny to in Paris. And especially when it comes to Ani's experiences with men, Ms. Kricorian accomplishes the difficult task of portraying encounters between people of differing class sensibilities and differing views of nationality and gender relations without being didactic or (a worse offense) resorting to cartoonish stereotypes. You can understand the choices that Ani makes even if you don't agree with them.

One does not need to be Armenian or even half Armenian (as the main character is) to appreciate this book--but anyone who has ever been confronted with issues of class, an "Old World" background (and implied obligations) and/or compensation for a non traditional upbringing--all the while navigating what it means to be "in love"--will find a lot to relate to in this slender but thought provoking book.

Bread and dreams: A case study of bilingual schooling in the U.S.A (CARE occasional publication)
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Bread and dreams: A case study of bilingual schooling in the U.S.A (CARE occasional publication)

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A baker's and confectioner's dream, iba 98 serves up a host of tasty frozen products. (1998 International Baking Symposium in Dusseldorf, Germany): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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A baker's and confectioner's dream, iba 98 serves up a host of tasty frozen products. (1998 International Baking Symposium in Dusseldorf, Germany): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
Ted Shoemaker
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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1207 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The 1998 International Baking Symposium held in Dusseldorf, Germany, gave evidence of the increasing use of frozen food in the industry. Baked goods and the equipment for making them were on display during the event. Irinox chillers, Thermohauser equipment for transporting products, Le Bon Pain's frozen food products, peeled apples from Confisell, fruit purees from Boiron Freres and sponge desserts from Kitchen Range Foods were some f those exhibited.

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Title: A baker's and confectioner's dream, iba 98 serves up a host of tasty frozen products. (1998 International Baking Symposium in Dusseldorf, Germany)
Author: Ted Shoemaker
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: v40 Issue: n1 Page: p90(2)

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Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Jon Huibregtse
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000VN7IW4
Release Date: 2007-09-01

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 632 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream.(Book review)
Author: Jon Huibregtse
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 851(2)

Article Type: Book review

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Restaurateur fulfills childhood dream by opening eateries in new Temple: Centro, South Union Bread Cafe set to open in the fall at downtown cultural center. ... article from: Business Record (Des Moines)
Michael Swanger
Manufacturer: Business Publication Corp.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Sweet dreams: Janelle Paige has a taste for the elaborate as she bakes a personal touch into each of her made-to-order products at layers a cake design ... from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Shelly Garcia
Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DVZJO
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from San Fernando Valley Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1146 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sweet dreams: Janelle Paige has a taste for the elaborate as she bakes a personal touch into each of her made-to-order products at layers a cake design studio.(Spotlight)(Company Profile)
Author: Shelly Garcia
Publication: San Fernando Valley Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 8 Issue: 18 Page: 29(1)

Article Type: Company Profile

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