Messenger

By Virginia Frances Schwartz

Subjects: Canada, fiction, Croats, Children of single parents, Single-parent families, Maturation (Psychology), Family life, fiction, Poor families, Fiction, Children's fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Silver mines and mining, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life

Description: Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.