Union Square

Rivington Street #2

by Meredith Tax

The lives of four women--labor unionist Sarah Levy; her fashion designer sister, Ruby; bohemian, pleasure-loving Rachel Sloate; and Tish, an expatriate--are set against the colorful, turbulent backdrop of 1920s and 1930s New York and Europe

Genres: Fiction, New York, Historical Fiction

437 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1988

About the author

Meredith Tax has been a writer and political activist since the late 1960s. She was a member of Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist group in Boston, and her 1970 essay, “Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Everyday Life,” is considered a founding document of the US women’s liberation movement. She was active in the antiwar movement and the left in the Seventies, when she worked in several factories and as a nurses’ aide in Chicago and was active in the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union.

See author's blog for more: http://www.meredithtax.org/biography/bio

Reviews

[Shawnee E.]

This book and Rivington street are amazing. They both should be added to schools' history class curricula.