A review by bhnmt61
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

5.0

The amazing thing about this book is that when you finish, you feel like you know exactly what it was like to live in a tenement in Brooklyn before the First World War. I read it forty-five years ago when I was in sixth or seventh grade, and I loved it then. But reading it as an adult, I appreciate it in a different, deeper way. Terrific book.