At seven, Cecilia Madden keeps the flies off her baby brother in a sweltering Irish flat and wonders aloud where God is. When her father’s fortunes suddenly rise, she is sent to a fashionable boarding school and must learn a new class’s ways, carrying her loyalties, her faith and her first love with her.
A sentimental, warm-hearted rags-to-riches story with a strong sense of immigrant New York. Download the free EPUB.