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(More customer reviews)Thirsty follows the life of Klara Bozic as she immigrates to a small town, Thirsty, from her home in Croatia. The story evolves over 40 years of her life. She meets her husband, Drago, and he seems like the dream of every young girl - until they get to America. Once there, he becomes abusive toward Klara and the fa?ade crumbles. As the cycle begins to repeat for her daughter, Sky, Klara knows that something has to be done.
This book spans the time period from 1883 to 1919. The steel boom is underway and it was fascinating to learn about how these small towns thrived around the factories. The people that lived there were completely ruled by the factory. One of the things that was very interesting to me was the death whistle. This whistle went off every time that someone was killed in the factory - and all of the women in town would walk down to the factory to learn who it was. How sad! This book was so well researched - right down to all of the little details.
I immediately was drawn into Klara's life - her story was the story of many immigrant women who came to the United States. Domestic abuse was common and many dreamed of finding something better. I loved how O'Keeffe followed Klara as she evolved from a na?ve young girl, moved into a broken, shell of herself, and then became empowered by the desire to break the cycle. O'Keeffe created a foil character for her in her neighbor Katherine. Katherine was an immigrant woman too but her husband was a perfect husband. He would even run over to break up fights at the Bozic household.
This book was immediately absorbing and I didn't want it to end. I loved that this book really made me feel much closer to my family heritage - which is a new feeling for me because I never really put much thought into it before.
This book was received from the publisher in exchange for a review and this was also posted on my blog.
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