The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani Their mother had to leave them at the convent as she had no more money after her husband died in the mines and she had sold everything. Edwardo and Cheero did the best they could under the circumstances.
This book also follows another family, Ineza who has lost her sister Stella. She was covered with bruises.
When he sees the priest with a girl he is sent away to the US to a shoemaker's shop. The worst part is he is separated from his brother.
There's a lot of Italian phrases throughout the book that are not always interpreted.
in the US he's an apprentice for a shoemaker and now that she's in the US-they met at the hospital, she works as a dress designer/sewer hoping to save money so they can buy the house in their homeland.
She tells him the next move is his and where she is located. She moves after a bit of time as her and a friend get a better job and move as he's not come for her.
He joins the army to gain citizenship and dreams of her and she's not where she was once when he went for her...
As time goes on we follow each of them and Edwardo's life's and her father who went to the west to the mines to gain fortune for the family back home...