Hi !

I've studied immigration quite a lot (at university and on a personal ground) so I could give you an endless list of titles... One of my favorite is "Call It Sleep" by Henry (not Philip) Roth, published in 1934 : "Through the eyes of David Schearl, the son of immigrant Jews, the reader is taken into the teeming jungle of a NYC slum."

I know there are a million books about the Italian immigration and growing up in the States but I can't remember the titles right now, but I'll do some research if you're interested

Almammater

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