The Garment Maker's Daughter

This is one of the best historical fiction novels I have ever read. The characters are engaging and complex. The writing is polished and lyrical. The plot is delightfully complicated, but never confusing or tedious. Most likely, the best recommendation I can give is that I can't wait for more from t......more

Love just happens….. It can’t be planned, neither can it be bought nor sold or even traded; it just happens. When it does, for whatever reason, it is pure magic. Like millions of immigrants before them, Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Cowan and seventeen-year-old Lena Rothman looked on Lady Liberty as th......more

I very well balanced historical fiction read. The characters are full and lush and the story heroic. I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you Goodreads and author Hillary Adrienne Stern for the opportunity to go back in time.......more

Great story. The Author writes extraordinarily well and is especially talented at conveying her characters' thoughts, moods and actions. The story moves incredibly quickly. Among other things, We get snapshots of immigrant life, particularly Jewish immigrant culture, the labor movement, and New York......more

This was a great story line and I loved the way the characters were developed. But the number of typos made this very distracting for me. At one point, the uncle was even referred to by the wrong name. There's really no excuse for this. I would have given this book 4 stars had it not been for the ty......more