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  • This is a lovely, poignant Depression-era coming-of-age story of Francie Nolan. Smith's writing is elegant and evocative. It does not the innocence of an L.M. Montgomery novel, however, the story is told tenderly and truthfully. Life, warts and all.

    A fine, simple story, well-deserving of its ... Continue

    This is a lovely, poignant Depression-era coming-of-age story of Francie Nolan. Smith's writing is elegant and evocative. It does not the innocence of an L.M. Montgomery novel, however, the story is told tenderly and truthfully. Life, warts and all.

    A fine, simple story, well-deserving of its categorization as a classic.

    

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.

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