I decided to try to find a publishing home for it one last time. After putting it on a virtual bookshelf for a couple of years, I took it out, read it with a very clear eye, and realized I still believed in the story. Like many novels, the road to publication for The Saturday Evening Girls Club was filled with starts, stops and a bit of serendipity. I had always wanted to write fiction, so I decided that I should be the one to write about ‘the Girls’. I thought it was such an interesting story in Boston’s history, and I was surprised when I discovered that no one had ever written a novel about these women and their club. Years ago, I wrote an article about the Saturday Evening Girls Club and their pottery for Boston Home magazine. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they'll draw strength-and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.I’m a Boston-based writer, and over the years I’ve done all kinds of writing, from magazine articles to tech company white papers to marketing copy for non-profits. The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice.
And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future.Īmbitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents.
For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy.
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