A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Fiction, Historical, Classics book. She was made up of more, too. She was the books she...
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0060801263 The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art...
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To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn // Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn // Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living. Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn //
Why, oh why, did I wait until I was 30 to read this?!?Ive been missing out, all these years, relishing in the indelible mark this story will forever have left on me. I think I let the fact that the main character was a child lead me to believe the story was childishbut boy was I wrong. I actually appreciate a read that helps me to decipher... Everyone {Yup, I'm reading it AGAIN.}I sob, and I mean sob, every time I read this book. It's such a simple story--Francie Nolan is a smart little girl who's trying to find beauty in her sometimes ugly, always poverty-stricken life. Her adored father is wonderful, but too plagued by his own demons to support his family. Her mother loves her...
