The Immigrant Train: & Other Stories

In this collection of short stories, Natalie Petesch presents separate but related tales of émigrés whose hopes outrun the realities of their lives in the United States. Centered around immigrants from Lunawicz, Poland, they reveal a talent for characterization and dialogue, but with something of a withered sense of hope. What these newcomers find most often is disappointment and defeat; the variation is manifest only in the many paths that lead to despair.