A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

H. L. Dietor said A Classic Worthy of Your Time. This is another 'classic' that I have always thought I should read and just now finally completed, thanks to Amazon making it available as a daily special. While I am glad that I got to visit with some of the moments of absolute brilliance of the writing, after awhile I found the writing to be disjointed and that kept yanking me out of the story. It's almost as if this book was written to be a serial in a magazine and then later was put together as a 'novel'. Regardless, there truly are some moments that make me so glad that I am a reader. The human condition in the early years of the 1900'. "It Grows, It Survives & It Endures" according to Karl Daniels. If you've ever wondered what it was like to come of age during the early 1900's than this book is for you. It is a thoroughly enjoyable book that is more like a diary than a novel. The characters live and breathe outside the pages, and I quickly fell in love with them as though they were my own family members. --Indeed, I felt as though I might be reading about my own Grandmother, and what life was like for her. This book reminded me a bit of "A Christmas Story," as it is told through the eyes of a child, and is but a slice of her family's every-day life, and their struggles as part of the . Timeless Coming Of Age Classic Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In today's world, it's ground zero of the hipster renaissance. It's more expensive to live in Brooklyn lately than it is to live in Manhattan. But it wasn't always that way. A century ago, when A Tree Grows in Brooklyn takes place, Williamsburg was where the immigrants and/or poor people lived. People like Francie Nolan and her family.If you're a fan of plot-driven novels, this probably isn't going to be the book for you. Nothing much really happenstwo young people, the children of Irish and German immigrants, meet, fall in love, and marry. They have two children, a

Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.