The Boston Girl : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from MaureenCean

I really, really, really enjoyed this book. The audio version was narrated by Linda Lavin and she was just wonderful. I came to work for a week with tears on my face, not because of events that were horrifically tragic, but just life's sad events, and this family was so likable, I wanted to be pa...

from tjsjohanna

Written as a memoir of sorts, a grandmother's recollections to her grandchild, this novel paints a vibrant picture of girlhood in 1900s through the 1920s. It lightly touches on things like child labor laws, lynchings, WWI, and the rise of feminism, but none of these serious issues influences the ...

from wagner.sarah35

I was pleasantly surprised by this vivid novel about a girl coming of age in early 20th-century Boston. Addie Baum is the daughter of Jewish immigrants in a family of striking personalities, and she struggles to chart her own course while adhering to her family's expectations. A good, well-writte...

from gypsysmom

I know this book has had lots of buzz about it but I frankly can't understand why. It was an interesting story but not much different from other books about young immigrant girls. I think A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was much better. The book is ostensibly an 85 year old woman's life story told to he...

from librarygeek33

Anita Diamant is so good at laying down the historic voice of the jewish woman. Or at least, not being a jewish woman, it seems authentic to me, anyway. This particular woman's story takes place in the Boston area circa the first half of the 20th century. The storyline has the narrator relating h...