A lovely and intriguing coming-of-age story from the perspective of a Russian Jew, The Boston Girl is refreshing.What I liked: Diamant described 20th century New York beautifully. I enjoyed reading about the wonderful relationships formed between Addie and her friends and how they developed into str...
I listened to this on audio and really enjoyed Linda Lavin. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought she was actually Addie herself. It was her voice and her mannerism as she spoke about the different subjects that were occurring in her life, that I thought many times this audio was actually a ...
I chose this book from NetGalley because I've read a couple of Anita Diamant’s books and I really enjoyed them. I like that after reading them, I feel satisfied that I’ve read a good story and also, somehow, smarter. She has a gift for telling complicated stories in an elegant, simple manner, and th...
It's rare to read happy stories, so I liked that about the Boston Girl. Not all of it is happy stuff, but it has a generally happy ending. And although it reads like history lite, it deals with some emotionally complex things - mostly Addie's relationship with her mother. Not sure I buy that she wo...
It's rare to read happy stories, so I liked that about the Boston Girl. Not all of it is happy stuff, but it has a generally happy ending. And although it reads like history lite, it deals with some emotionally complex things - mostly Addie's relationship with her mother. Not sure I buy that she wo...
Born in the early 1900’s Addie Baum was the first child in her family to be born in America. She grew up in the North End of Boston … “before it was trendy” … Jewish, poor and in the shadow of her sisters – one the perfect daughter and the other the rebel. Addie spent most of her early years tryin...
"How did you get to be the woman you are today?" When Addie Baum's 22-year-old granddaughter, Ava, asks her grandmother this very question, she is regaled with the wonderful narrative of Addie's life, reliving every vivid moment from the time she was 15, a young Jewish girl growing up in Boston duri...
This is the first book by Anita Diamant that I've read, and now the TBR grows (again). I loved her writing, the way she described the environment and surroundings was just enough to paint a clear picture, but not caught up in meaningless details. The book is from the POV of Addie, both as a gran...
By Anita DiamantISBN: 9781439199350Publisher: ScribnerPublication Date: 12/9/2014 Format: OtherMy Rating: 4 Stars A special thank you to Scribner and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant is an emotionally moving and gripping story of a Jewish gra...
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