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Editorial Review:
"With all the detail of a New Yorker profile, Ansberry has turned the lives of these women into gorgeous domestic history." - Booklist
In a tiny neighborhood perched atop a hill in Pittsburgh thrives a world we think we have lost. It is a world of loyalty, faith, energy, and it is a world composed of women in their seventies and eighties who have spent most of their lives in this tightly knit community. Having grown up there, raised families there, and buried their loved ones there, these women still live wonderful, independent, energetic lives. From their common perspective of age come family stories that span the twentieth century, and through them our rushed and restless generation is reminded of the important things in life.
The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship Reviews:
Troy Hill at it's finest 
2009-10-03 - I grew up on Mt. Troy but went to school at Most Holy Name Elementary. I married my husband of 40 yrs who lived on Troy Hill. I was in the same class as Sarah Wohleber. And yet I never knew these wonderful women existed on Troy Hill. This book was given to me by my sister-in-law who also grew up on Troy Hill. Unless you understand the diversity of Pittsburgh and the nationality division, you cannot appreciate this book. The north side had the Italians on the lower side and Germans on the upper side. The South side had the Polish and Slavic nationalities. The Hill side had the black population and the rest fell in the cracks. These women as in all the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh kept it together like glue. It is an extremely well written book and captures one little niche of an amazing city of cultural pride.
Not what I expected...but the last chapter made it worth it 
2001-09-27 - This book was not what I expected. I was looking for either a story about each individual women or how they all interacted. The book just seems to jump from one story to the next. All the names were so similar that it was hard to keep track of who was from each family. I never did quite get how they all interacted. I know that they all knew each other from living on Troy Hill, but other than that.....
That being said, these women were all amazing. They did was has to be done and didn't complain. In reading this it was easy to see my own grandparents and understand a little better why they do the things they do....why relationships and family is so important. The last chapter kind of made the book. It talks about the vitures of friendship and how these women have been friends for so long that they wouldn't know what to do without the other. It is rare to find a friendship like that in today's society. Friends and Family are the world to these women....maybe we can all learn from that
Not What I Expected....... 
2001-06-07 - Maybe it was the writer's fault, but this story just wasn't presented the way I thought it would be. It turned out to be more of a travelogue of this little neighborhood than individual stories about the ladies themselves. I couldn't finish it.
Lives well-lived
2001-02-22 - The Women of Troy Hill chronacles the lives of a group of women who have lived on Troy Hill, not far from Pittsburg for most , if not all their lives. It follows family's immigration to this country, settling down, and the changing roles of women in America throughout the 1900's. These women are strong, faith-filled and examples of lives well lived. This is a delightful book, and a tribute to these wonderful women.
Neighbors as teachers 
2001-01-19 - I enjoyed this book because it's the story of so many women's stories: nurturing to many and being a good neighbor. None of these women thought themselves worthy of a memoir because they led and still lead "normal" lives and were just doing what they were supposed to do: be respectful, be humble, be truthful, be genreous, be loyal, be caring, be loving to one another. Ms. Ansberry writes well of ordinary lives that makes you think they are extraordinary. One line that I recall was that, "men worked, but women neighbored." Oh, to have neighborhoods that care and teach us like this!
