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    <body><![CDATA[This novel blew me away. Marshall’s remarkable 1959 debut tells the story of Selina Boyce and her family, Barbadian immigrants in World War II-era Brooklyn. Drawing on her own experiences, Marshall creates a brilliant combination of bildungsroman, immigrant chronicle, and racial polemic. Selina is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7215239">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably wouldn't have ever heard of Brown Girl, Brownstones if it hadn't been assigned for the African American Literature by Women course I'm taking this semester. However, it has a deserved place among novels about the immigrant experience and coming of age. <br/><br/>Brown Girl, Brownstones ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38406403">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Selina is a young girl living in the slums of Brooklyn. She lives with a harsh sister, a good for nothing mother, and a hard working but not accomplishing father. Selina tries to find who she really is by making the best of her life. She is negative and dismisses anything that is not truly her way. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74017138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic female coming-of-age story. All the tension between mothers and daughters and girls with their girl friends is there, along with rich portrayals of Barbados American immigrant life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read it, thats all I have to say.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a little difficulty getting into this book, which is a coming-of-age story of a Caribbean-American girl growing up in Brooklyn (Bed-Stuy) in the 1950s, but when I did I loved it.  There are a number of completely riveting scenes, including one when the father, a frustrating dreamer, blows $900...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32839885">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a person of Jamerican parentage (Father-Jamaican; Mother American), I see the cultural differences between African Americans and West Indians. The West Indians have a strong work ethic in order to gain the American Dream. Deighton, who is the father was a wastrel who believed in Father Divine. Fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21301263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a like a long, beautiful poem. Lots of description, definitely character-driven, but with a really interesting story and some social commentary, too. I loved the main character, Selina - I think she would have made a great Smithie :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for an English course entitled: &quot;The World is a Ghetto.&quot; This is compelling book about a family from Barbados living in NYC. It displays the struggles of foreign blacks from the Carribeian living in the Big Apple.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sad . A young girl deals with her own sexuality and have to face the death of her father that she blames her mother for doing. She must find who she turly is... I suggest you read this book !]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember the year exactly, because Professor Elaine Hansen gave one of my dearest friends, ever, Lisa and me an A for our writing and presentation on this one.<br/><br/> ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love it. It's Paula Marshall--nuff said. For those who don't know, she's in the same category as the can't-go-wrong-in-my-book Danticat.]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 19:57:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another take A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, set during the Second World War not the first, Bedford-Stuyvesant, not Williamsburg.  Haunting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've taught this novel a couple of times. It's rich in its characters, setting &amp; themes &amp; deserves a wider audience.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Deep affection for this and for those 'two silver bangles [the protagonist] always wore...']]></body>
    
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