Christ in Concrete

July 23, 2012/Ryan Clover-Owens

Published in 1939, Pietro DiDonato’s Christ in Concrete examines the American experience for hard-working Italian immigrants living in New York City’s Lower East Side shortly before the Great Depression and focuses on a family’s struggle against harsh economic realities and tenement living.   The novel was inspired by the death of DiDonato’s father in a construction accident.

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Ryan Clover-Owens

I'm on a mission to prove that we can live in a society that reconciles with our history, respects difference, cherishes the land and animals, and can create solutions to the challenges we face.