A review by lelderkin
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

3.0

A sweet, sometimes powerful book. But nowhere near The Red Tent in terms of quality. I love Anita Diamant’s writing style and it’s great here, but the subject just feels much more dreary than Red Tent. Anyway, relationships between women were again the focus of this book and I love that. Filomena and Celia were two interesting, sometimes tragic characters. Betty and Gussie are my role models. And Addie herself is so smart and honest and thoughtful. The premise of a grandma telling her granddaughter her life story was a bit clunky, but it was nice to have that forward-looking perspective. Overall a nice book but I don’t really think it was special.