The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island Free Audiobook Download by Heather Webb

The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island is a fictional story told in alternating chapters, written from the perspective of four different women. It is set in New York City's Ellis Island during the last days before America's Immigration Act of 1924. The novel tells the stories of these women and how they are impacted by life, love and heart-wrenching loss on the island.

The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island is a story of three sisters, all immigrants, and the ways that they struggle to find love and family. The novel starts with the youngest sister, June, who is on her way to Ellis Island in search of her older sisters, Judy and Anita. It turns out that Judy has already passed away from pneumonia at the age of 69 but Anita survives.

"Ellis Island is the symbolic threshold of America, and so many of the immigrants arrived there at one point or another in their lives. For the young boy protagonist, it's over a decade later and he's still fighting his way to freedom, only now as an adult trying to figure out what it means for him to be American."

The Next Ship Home is a wonderful book set in the late 1800s. Ellis Island's history, while not exactly common knowledge, is well known. Heather Webb takes this history and weaves an incredible tale of immigration, loss, and love through her protagonist Amelia Russell.

The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island by Heather Webb audiobook download is a story about an immigrant from Ireland seeking refuge in the United States. The main character, Mattie, is forced to leave her home country after being attacked on the beach for being gay. With everything she has left behind, she struggles to find her footing in America and finally finds freedom.

A young Irish immigrant named Robert, has left home to find a better life in America. He finds that the American dream is not as easy to attain as he had hoped. He winds up on Ellis Island waiting for another chance at a new life, but his fate changes when he gets caught up in the war with Spain and founds himself living on an abandoned ship. Robert and a few other Irish immigrants decide to settle on the abandoned ship and make it their own.