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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Start date: May 1, 2019

Finish date: May 31, 2019

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Mar 15, 2013 Cathie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nbr-challenges, bb-botm, favorites, coming-of-age-story, classics, book-addicts-botm, usa-new-york, 2013-reads, 2013-favorites, you-ll-love-this-challenges

Great character study and the writing flowed seamlessly. The plot is everyday life and the action is living, surviving and growing up in a poor immigrant Irish family in Brooklyn, New York in the 1900s. Be prepared to be engrossed by all the grim and ordinary details of the Nolans' day to day lives.

A true master writer doesn't have to have a flashy theme or other worlds to make ordinary life riveting. Betty Smith is a master author. I definitely recommend it to everyone I know.

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Aug 21, 2015 Aiyana rated it liked it

A coming-of-age novel not too much unlike Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, or Little Women. It's about a little girl and her humble, yet proud little family growing up and finding wonder and beauty in the poor slums of Brooklyn.
I would never have heard of it if it hadn't been for Goodreads.
While this is can be read and enjoyed by anyone who likes a heart-warming novel, I think I might have liked it more if I had read it in my early teens or something. I found the writing styl ...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Lisa rated it liked it

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It was interesting to hear about times in the early 1900's but the book was very very slow. It took me a week to read it when It should have taken two days. ...more

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