{"product_id":"the-boston-girl-hardcover","title":"The Boston Girl - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnita Diamant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Tent \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Day After Night\u003c\/i\u003e, comes 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAddie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEighty-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.\" She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the na?e girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBoston Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Tent, Good Harbor, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Dogtown\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDay After Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and the collection of essays, \u003ci\u003ePitching My Tent.\u003c\/i\u003e An award-winning journalist whose work appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParenting, \u003c\/i\u003e and many others, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website at AnitaDiamant.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.2 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696933048383,"sku":"9781439199350","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c02c6a090815a7bc0f9d4ca80fd3848b.webp?v=1765007833","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-boston-girl-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}