The Next Ship Home

🚢 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 🚢

Thank you so much Sourcebook Landmark for this gifted copy.

I have been looking forward to 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 (𝗣𝘂𝗯 𝟮/𝟴) since last year, and you know my historical fiction loving butt was excited when this book arrived with a map, detailed points of interest, extra reader discussion points and author info! I such a map junkie and love referring to them as I read, so I can’t wait to starting reading Webb’s latest and sure to be very moving story.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, your poor ... your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator, even as women are denied the chance.

As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America, they form an unlikely friendship―and share a terrible secret―altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them.

This is a novel of the dark secrets of Ellis Island, when entry to "the land of the free" promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, and when immigrant strength and female friendship found ways to triumph even on the darkest days.

Inspired by true events and for fans of Kristina McMorris and Hazel Gaynor.

💬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬?