This book is a fictionalization of real events that took place in San Jose in the 1930s and while I'm sure the author did a substantial amount of research, the book is all over the place.

We follow low level mobsters, cannery workers hoping to unionize, corrupt lawmen, college students, and one of Hoover's men from DC sent to investigate the kidnapping of a wealthy department store owner's college aged son. But the story jumps from point of view to point of view and goes off on tangents and ultimately never gives us a satisfying conclusion as to what happened to Michael Rosen. And while in real life that is often the case, but in a book it is frustrating.

I'll not be providing a review. It is clear that the description of the book at the story, at least the first part of the book, don't line up. I was curious about the "genre- bending" but apparently just means adding a history lesson to the novel.
By the way, there is a famous At. James Park in London. That, pulped with cover art led me to a whole different place.
I was not expecting the politically charged, union history lesson of California.
Victoria seems to be the protagonist but the description is of someone entirely different. The "hero" shows up 60 pages into the book?

And there are way too many characters tossed in at the beginning. "Raven-haired, chestnut-brown eyed" so cliche.