Olives on the Apple Tree

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Good+. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent copy with moderate shelfwear, several dents/cracks in lower edge of rear cover, front hinge a little weak]. "Emile Gardella, a doctor, and his family, move out of their Italian immigrant community to blend in with the middle class; but Marco, the newly arrived young immigrant, believes in being himself and becoming an American in time, without giving up his Italian heritage." (Simone 251). A contemporary reviewer called the book "a compelling and human story of Americans in the making -- 'over-night Americans' -- trying feverishly to switch themselves suddenly from the simple life of the Old World to the confusing hustle-bustle of the new." ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .