Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (2014)

Read this much earlier this year and I even think I wrote it up, but a quick mention will have to do. This was an interesting look into young Jewish woman's life in Boston from 1915 to the 1930's - as she tells her story to her granddaughter. I've already forgotten much of the details. I do remember being fascinated by these girl's clubs that helped bright young women to see they could be more if they get an education. Sorry to cheat, but here's the description from Google Books:

"Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie's intelligence and curiosity propelled her to a more modern path. Addie wanted to finish high school and to go to college. She wanted a career, to find true love. She wanted to escape the confines of her family. And she did.
Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them."

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