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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.

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