Girls of Tender Age : A Memoir (Hardcover)

from jewelryladypam

I had to read this book for the 'memoirs' month of our book club. I was looking forward to reading it only because of its Hartford, CT setting since I grew up in Wethersfield, a bordering suburb. Otherwise, I really didn't want to read this book whatsoever and certainly would never have picked it...

from pdebolt

Mary Ann Tirone-Smith has done an excellent job of describing her childhood in the 1950s - her emotionally-estranged mother, her doting father and her older brother whose autism regulated how the family unit operated. The convergence of evil with innocence changed everything when a child predator...

from bobbieharv

A memoir by a novelist. Very well done in the beginning - interweaving her story with that of the murderer of her firend, in a way that we don't know who this guy is. In the middle she became obsessed with every detail of the trial and execution, and the book lost its charm. But she's a really go...

from bnbookgirl

This is such a great memoir/true crime story. The author covers coming-of-age, autism, pedophilia, murder and social and legal issues of the 1950's. I was intrigued by the telling of the two stories and then when they merged in mid book. This is a story of the author's life pre-crime, during the ...

from byroade

Tirone Smith's memoir of a Hartford childhood in the fifties is funny, familiar, and disturbing. The central event of the memoir is the murder of her classmate Irene in fifth grade which creates a two-year hole in her memory until she retraces the circumstances of the crime decades later. Full of...