The award winning sequel, The Dreams of Singers and Sluggers, picks up where The Heart of Bakers and Artists left off. It’s 1911 In the Lower East Side tenements and Lily, a nine almost ten-year-old daughter of Sicilian immigrants, has big dreams to sing out with her powerful voice, but must do EVERYTHING, since Mama fell into a deep depression, the baby is sick, and the “Black Hand” terrorizes the neighborhood, threatening her chance to sing at the New York Highlanders Fourth of July baseball game.