Anzia Yezierska 
Hunger [EPUB ebook] 

A sequel to ‘Wings’, Peshah gets a job at a shirtwaist factory where one of the workers falls in love with her. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrantsparticularly Jewish immigrant women.