The Boston Girl: A Novel
by:
Anita Diamant (author)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century.Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century.Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00KU4PW86
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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...
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