Book
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The Boston girl : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION DIAM (OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Physical Description
322 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter.