Free Vacation House

by Anzia Yezierska

Genres: Coming of Age

Synopsis

A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants—particularly Jewish immigrant women.

Release date: March 23, 2021

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Print pages: 12