"This book is one more attempt to open up the horror of the triangle fire, to gaze intently and unflinchingly at it, and to settle on the facts and their meaning. For although Issac hine received a small stipend to place a marker on rosie freedman's grave, she is more to us than a name on a stone over a featureless form. She stands, with all the young women she represents, at the center of on of the great and tragic stories of American history."