““Steven Decker successfully, brilliantly takes his reader to Cambridge Street in the 1920’s. So much so one can actually smell the street, the work place and the red gravy simmering on the kitchen stove. One is not only welcomed into the Tomaso Family, one is like a close relative feeling the expanse of emotion from horrific horror to sweet tender love and everything in between. Cambridge Street is not just a compelling read but also a thought provoking experience for so many who live privileged lives as a result of ancestors who sacrificed so much.
Thank you Steven Decker.”
““Cambridge Street grabs your attention and your heart! From the strong supportive families, to the wicked characters, Decker creates a meaningful and sincere story of the huge struggles faced by immigrants coming to the new country. The families love and support of each other is what the world needs to see and feel today. Their dedication to family to fight to make a living, whatever they had to do to support their family. Heartwarming, engaging and enjoyable.”
““I loved being immersed in characters that I felt like I knew, because the descriptions were just so detailed that I really, really felt like I got to know them. Let me just say that their experiences were beyond what anyone should be made to go through, yet it's how they handled these experiences that are sometimes admirable, sometimes repulsive, sometimes heroic, but I always felt like I knew exactly why they did what they did, and how they felt about it. I honestly looked at the book when I was 3/4 through and felt dismayed that I know it would have to end eventually!
It's great to come across a book like this and I enjoyed it thoroughly.”
““CAMBRIDGE STREET is a MUST READ!!! Steven Decker is a master story teller; I was unable to put the book down until I finished it! Mr. Decker portrays, informed in part by his own family’s history, the love, courage, determination, strength, harsh realities, painful decisions, and hope all intertwined in the immigrant experience. This story celebrates family and the triumphant power of selfless, unconditional love in the face of countless obstacles and even great evil.
Cambridge Street is a heartfelt, realistic, and thought provoking glimpse of the great immigrant story that is the United States.”
““I found myself unable to put the book down. I could relate to the struggles the family endured as Sicilian immigrants traveling from the "old" country to make a better life for their children. It made me think about my family's immigration to the United States in the early 1900s from Sicily. My great grandmother arrived with her children... without money, education or a husband. She worked tenaciously to survive the streets of Chicago.
This is truly a heartwarming, vibrant and beautiful depiction of an immigrant family's powerful and courageous life in the U.S. Gianna, the matriarch, proves herself over and over again as she is forced to sustain the strength to keep the family together.”