The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel

In Bostons North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behindbut never one another.

For four young immigrant women living in Bostons North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesnt come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home livesand hope for a better future.

Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition.

The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, theyll draw strengthand the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.