A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.
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I feel like probably a tree did actually fully grow in Brooklyn in the time it took me to read this book. It's a really good story, and it was amazing to get a glimpse of Brooklyn's slice of life from a hundred years ago. But boy howdy was it slow reading. And just when it started to get really interesting, it ended. (This is not to say that it wasn't interesting throughout, only that I was more intrigued by Francie Nolan as a young woman than as a child.)
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