| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915–99. By Carol Lynn McKibben. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 159 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.)

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row made this Monterey street famous, but his novel provides few descriptions of the immigrants who sustained its once-thriving sardine industry. Drawing on 150 personal interviews, Carol Lynn McKibben gives voice to one of Monterey's most prominent immigrant groups: the Sicilians. They dominated Monterey's fisheries and continued to shape local politics and culture long after the sardine's demise. McKibben argues that Sicilians fashioned an identity that "fused ethnicity with fishing, and with Monterey itself" and that Sicilian women played an active role in building this identity and creating an enduring community of ethnic fisher-people (p. 1).

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