Eventually, Jake and Rosa's lives intertwine. I didn't much like either child, early in the story. Rosa lectures her mother about the perils of striking, and slinks along on the fringes of the marches and demonstrations that arise, even as she is sometimes inspired by them. Jake steals, lies, and fails to appreciate people's kindness to him. Though they have different backgrounds and experiences, both children find their lives turned upside down when the Lawrence mill-workers go on strike. She's studious, prissy, and quiet, and worries a lot. Rosa Serutti is the daughter of Italian immigrants, and attends school, though her mother and older sister work in the mills. He respects no one, and sleeps literally in garbage heaps.
Jake Beale has faked his papers to work at the local mill, is largely illiterate, and spends most of his time running away from his abusive, drunken father. The folks at Clarion were kind enough to send me a copy of Bread and Roses, Too, and I moved it to the top of my to read stack (which is quite saying something - it's a big stack).īread and Roses, Too is told from the alternating perspectives of two very different children. So when I head that Katherine Paterson had written a novel about the Lawrence, Massachusetts mill strikes of 1912, I simply had to read it. I am partial to historical fiction, I'm a fan of Katherine Paterson, and I'm originally from Massachusetts.
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