The Boston Girl

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming of age 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 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, who has asked her How did you get to be the woman you are today She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life From the one room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the na ve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. Best Download eBook The Boston Girl Author Anita Diamant – kino-fada.fr This is one of those rare novels that if life hadn t gotten in the way I could have read in one sitting It was like pulling a warm blanket out of the drier and wrapping it around you I LOVED the first person telling of the story and felt like Addie was my grandmother telling me ...Anita Diamant s new novel, The Boston Girl, comes to us as the transcript of a tape recorded monologue delivered by an 85 year old woman named Addie Baum Addie is cheery, alert and full of needlepointed wisdom If this allegedly spontaneous memoir is any indication, she s also the most well organized 85 year old woman in the world Asked by her granddaughter to talk about how she got to be the person she is today, Addie takes us back to 1900, the year she was born From there, she leads us thr Anita Diamant s new novel, The Boston Girl, comes to us as the transcri...I read this novel in 2 sittings It took my heart A LIFE STORY Beautifully written by a Master storyteller The author has the talent to make challenging complex structure look effortless, even casual I was weeping at the pure beauty this novel was weeping to have it end This is one of the best simple but powerful stories I ve read all year with very clean editing I deeply appreciate that there was not any wasted unnecessary chatter Universal forces are examined throug I read this novel in 2 sittings It took my heart A LIFE STORY Beautifully written by a Master storyteller The author has the talent to make challenging complex structure look effortless, even casual I was weeping at the pure beauty this nove...In 1985 Addie Baum decides to tell her granddaughter Ava Miller the story of her life Looking back on eighty five years of memories, Addie reminisces of times long gone, of life before modern conveniences as dish washers and telephones, of immigrants toiling in factories during their first years in the United States Addie Baum has lived in Boston for her entire life and is The Boston Girl in every sense of the word I first read Anita Diamont years ago with her debut novel The Red Tent At the In 1985 Addie Baum decides to tell her granddaughter Ava Miller the story ...When Addie Baum s granddaughter asks her how she came to be the woman she is today, Addie embarks on a trek down memory lane It is now 1985 as she relates her life story to granddaughter Ava, but her story goes back many, many years Addie, now at the wise age of eighty five, was born to Jewish Russian immigrants but was born in America and lived her entire life in Boston The novel is written in a conversational tone as granddaughter and grandmother bond through the sharing of these vivid memo When Addie Baum s granddaughter asks her how she came to be the woman she is today, Addie embarks on a trek down memory lane It is now 1985 as she relates her life story to granddaughter Ava, but her story goes back many, many years Addie, now at the wise age of eighty five, was born to Jewish Russian immigrants but was born in America and lived her entire life in Boston The novel is written in a conversational tone as granddaughter and grandmother bond through the sharing of these vivid memories Addie s mind is sharp and her storytelling is spirited Addie had spark and was a real go getter This was a struggle for her her parents had old fashioned values and often butted heads with Addie Her mother lived a hard life, did not want to leave her home country, and as a result turned into a bitter woman Addie could never seem to please her mother and this distressed her but...Where I got the book purchased on Kindle This was read for my IRL book club SPOILER WARNING I have to say straight out that I m the wrong reader for this book, always a risk when somebody else chooses the reading material It pings a couple of my prejudices First, I don t like immigrant success stories They re always the same a girl, generally Irish or Jewish for some reason, comes to America is born in America to a recently arrived immigrant family She grows up strongly influenced by Where I got the book purchased on Kindle This was read for my IRL book club SPOILER WARNING I have to say straight out that I m the wrong reader for this book, always a risk when somebody else chooses the reading material It pings a couple of my prejudices First, I don t like immigrant success stories They re always the same a girl, generally Irish or Jewish for some reason, comes to America is born in America to a recently arrived immigrant family She grows up strongly influenced by American values and ambitions and chafes against the restrictions that her family, clinging to Old Country ways, try to impose on her Because she s really clever and often beautiful too s...Review of Advanced Reading Copy, Kindle edition.At one point, I looked up this title on Goodreads to see if it was a young adult or youth title The narrative, complimented by uncomplicated writing style, was very straightforward and unembellished This is not to say that the novel was ill written In fact, it was well written in that it read like a transcript of an oral history, which is the basis for the story But this reader was expectingof a literary style.And if the voice of the narr Review of Advanced Reading Copy, Kindle edition.At one point, I looked up this title on Goodreads to see if it was a young adult or youth title The narrative, complimented by uncomplicated writing style, was very straightforward and unembellished This is not to say that the novel was ill written In fact, it was well written in that it read like a transcript of an oral history, which is the basis for the story But this reader was expectingof a literary style.And if the voice of the narrative was unornate, one might expect the story to bedynamic Instead, the plot line is very forthright as well It truly is a coming of age story for a young woman in Boston in the early part of the 20th century The woman s family story touches upon the immigrant experience, poverty and success, the first world war, the spanish flu epidemic, traditional expectations of marriag...This is the story of 85 year old Addie Baum, told in an interview with her grand daughter It is a sweet tale of a time when Addie s family was new to the country and she was the only one to be born in the US out of them all She was born in Boston before the first World War and being Jewish she didn t have it as easy as many others would This is a great story of family, friendship, career, and love.This book is so incredible at establishing a well rounded character that I found myself double c This is the story of 85 year old Addie Baum, told in an interview with her grand daughter It is a sweet tale of a time when Addie s family was new to the country and she was the...3.5 When Addie s grand daughter asks an 85 year old Addis to tell her about her life it opens a conversation between the two of them So the style of this book is divided in years and written somewhat as a memoir.Starting the in early 1900 s, Addie s parent s came to the North end of Boston from Russia They live with all the suspicions and dislike held for the Jews at that time So much history is covered from tenement living, prohibition, the flu epidemic, the polio epidemic and the fight to g 3...Happy Sigh , What a nice read that was I haven t read a book that fast in ages I am a fan of books that cover a protagonists entire lifetime, however I feel that they can be hard to do right They either end up being too long and forcing you to skim, or too short and leave you feeling like there are holes in the story This book was a good middle ground between the two I thought that the way the story was told with Addie telling the story of her life to her granddaughter , was a clever wayHappy Sigh , What a nice read that was I haven t read a book that fast in ages I am a fan of books that cover a protagonists entire lifetime, however I feel that they can be hard to do right They either end up being too long and forcing you to skim, or too short and leave...

The Boston Girl
  • English
  • 22 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 1439199353
  • Anita Diamant
  • The Boston Girl