Threadbare

<p><strong style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)><em>Threadbare</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> recounts the story of Tillie an innocent but tenacious young girl who chooses to marry Abe a lonely widower rather than follow her farming community north as urban development transforms rural Harlem. Convinced Abe will help her attend high school on the Lower East Side Tillie faces a rude awakening amidst the filth and disease of the tenements. Through the following decades she turns her energy and intelligence to partnering with Abe as he builds a thriving button business while she and her neighbor Sadie launch a unique garment company. Pushing back against anti-Semitic Victorian values dominating the time Tillie acquires wealth only to have her life upended by a devastating unforeseen challenge. </span></p>