Sisu (Guts, Drive and Ambition)

Facing all odds, Marta a young European girl, came to New York to start a business in a Man’s World.” This was unheard of in the year of 1920. Gangsters were meeting the ferry from Ellis Island, promising naive, young girls a job with excitement, and a glamorous life, only to find themselves in the life of prostitution, better known as White Slavery.” The Roaring Twenties”- a time of change - fashions, music, dancing, transportation all met with a new challenge for Marta. Prohibition, Women’s Suffrage, Bootlegging, and the crash all played a part in Marta’s new life. With her determination, or sisu,” would Marta weather it all to become successful in a strange new world? Had she made the right decision to leave the security of her home and family? (She missed them already.) She would be entering a new world, where she dreamed that the streets were paved with gold. Could she find the man of her dreams - someone who would treat her as an equal? Or was this all fantasy. This was 1920. What destiny was in store for her?Pacheco, Joyce is the author of 'Sisu (Guts, Drive and Ambition)', published 2006 under ISBN 9781589093751 and ISBN 1589093755.