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Invite Anita Diamant to Your Book Club!
- Item Number
- 219
- Estimated Value
- 450 USD
- Sold
- 420 USD to TriciaMcCall
- Number of Bids
- 18 - Bid History
Item Description
Via Skype, the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, Anita Diamant will join your book club for a discussion of her newest novel, The Boston Girl. This is an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Six (6) signed copies of The Boston Girl will be included when the books are published in December 2014.
Addie Baum is The Boston Girl. She was born in Boston in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who live very modest lives. She is the youngest of three daughters and the only one not born in Eastern Europe. Her father and sister Celia work in factories; Addie's mother opposes worldly American values; and her eldest sister, Betty, lives independently and works in a downtown department store. Growing up in the North End is challenging for Addie. She longs for a high school education. When a local library club gives her the chance to learn and spend a week at the summer inn Rockport Lodge, Addie encounters a diverse group of girls united by their ambitions to be free young women. The friendships she forges at Rockport Lodge last a lifetime and help her through many difficult periods. As Addie grows into adulthood, she discovers the cruelty of illness and the untoward intentions of young men alongside the excitement of social changes taking place in America and new professional opportunities available to women.
With compassion for the naïve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor eighty-five year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today?"
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Donated By:
Anita Diamont
Jo Frances Meyer
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