{"product_id":"the-sorting-room-paperback","title":"The Sorting Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Rose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Prohibition-era New York City, Eunice Ritter, an indomitable ten-year-old girl, finds work in a sweat shop--an industrial laundry--after impairing her older brother with a blow to the head in a sibling tussle. When the diminutive girl first enters the sorting room, she encounters a giant: Gussie, the largest human being she has ever seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGussie, a powerful, hard-working woman, soon becomes Eunice's mentor and sole friend as she finds herself entrapped in the laundry's sorting room by the Great Depression, sentenced to bring her low wages home to her alcoholic parents as penance for her childhood mistake. Then, on her sixteenth birthday, Eunice becomes pregnant and her drunken father demands that the culprit marry his daughter, trapping her anew--this time in a loveless marriage, along with a child she never wanted. Within a couple of years, Eunice makes a grave error and settles into a lonely life of drudgery that she views as her own doing. She spends decades in virtual solitude before her secret history is revealed to those from whom she has withheld her love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn epic family saga, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorting Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating tale of a woman's struggle and perseverance in faint hopes of reconciliation, if not redemption.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Rose was raised on a small family dairy farm in Upstate New York. He retired after serving in executive positions for several global multinational enterprises. He has been a non-executive director for three public companies headquartered in the US. He lives and writes in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779104178239,"sku":"9781684631056","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/the-sorting-room-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}