Anyone have recommendations for good novels (either contemporaneous or historical fiction) set in that late 19th-/early 20th-century era of immigration into New York? The journey over, the melting pot, the crowded neighborhoods, the rags to riches stuff? There’s a bit of this in Doctorow’s “Ragtime” and a biography I read of Irving Berlin gave a great feel for that era, plus films like “The Godfather II” and even the cartoon “An American Tail.” But for such an iconic era of American history I can’t think of a really good epic that captures that era.
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Possibly [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/dc5de2f5-b132-4c4c-8e49-8bf46005d5da) by Betty Smith. The main character isn’t an immigrant herself, but her grandparents are, and there are a lot of immigrants in her community.