The Boston Girl

by Anita Diamant

When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her.

Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie's intelligence and curiosity propelled her to a more modern path. Addie wanted to finish high school and to go to college. She wanted a career, to find true love. She wanted to escape the confines of her family. And she did.

Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.

• ISBN10: 1439199353
• ISBN13: 9781439199350
• Publish Date: 9 December 2014
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Scribner Book Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[mrs_mander_reads]

This was a random download - I needed something to listen to while waiting on a book to come off hold. I really enjoyed it. Addie's story is so interesting and easy to follow. The book is also chock-full of information about the decades that Addie lived through, and especially information about what life looked like for immigrants. Definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys history or the memoir format.

[Amber (The Literary Phoenix)]

You find yourself quickly drawn into Addie's world. Your heart breaks when her heart breaks. You're happy when she's happy. You are angry when she's angry. Diamant has a way of looping the reader in emotionally with her characters and you are rooting for them even before you really know them. The narrator, Linda Lavin, does an excellent job of bringing Addie to life. There are times where she grumbles something or laughs and its absolutely like hearing the story of a life from a vivacious elderly woman. Excellent.

(Read the full review on my blog.)