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Addie Baum is born in the United States, grows up through the tumultous years of the early 1900’s through the 80’s, and now – in her eighties, she is recounting her life to her granddaughter, who has asked the question, “How did you get to be the woman you are today?”
Addie takes us through her struggle to be educated and not married off in her very early teens; World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic; Prohibition; woman’s suffrage and the struggle for women to simply be accepted as people and t ...more
Addie takes us through her struggle to be educated and not married off in her very early teens; World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic; Prohibition; woman’s suffrage and the struggle for women to simply be accepted as people and t ...more
Sep 10, 2016
Evan
marked it as to-read
