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laurieb755 's review for:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Anytime mention of ""A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" was made, I used to wonder how the book escaped me during my childhood. As a voracious reader, the book never crossed my doorstep nor did I know anyone reading it. Yet, it was one of those books whose title I knew, and I would occasionally wonder, when the title was mentioned, how my reading education had failed me here.
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What a richly told tale! Moving. Poignant. Loving. And hugely evocative of what I imagine the world was like for my grandparents and great-grandparents, though they lived in the Bronx and Manhattan, and were Jewish and not Irish Catholic. Betty Smith painted a picture as true as I can imagine of life in part of New York at the turn of the 20th century and into the early part of the 1900s through World War I.
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This morning I was telling my Aunt Joan about reading this book, and she immediately said it was a book she could see herself rereading, having read it as a young girl. (She is in her early 80s.)
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Thank you to whoever it was whose list it was on - Ann's? Sarah's? - because that is how I wound up borrowing it from the library!
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What a richly told tale! Moving. Poignant. Loving. And hugely evocative of what I imagine the world was like for my grandparents and great-grandparents, though they lived in the Bronx and Manhattan, and were Jewish and not Irish Catholic. Betty Smith painted a picture as true as I can imagine of life in part of New York at the turn of the 20th century and into the early part of the 1900s through World War I.
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This morning I was telling my Aunt Joan about reading this book, and she immediately said it was a book she could see herself rereading, having read it as a young girl. (She is in her early 80s.)
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Thank you to whoever it was whose list it was on - Ann's? Sarah's? - because that is how I wound up borrowing it from the library!