
The Boston Girl: A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Linda Lavin
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By:
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Anita Diamant
2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female Narrator
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century.
Addie 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.
Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her 22-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 naïve girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.
Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant’s previous novels best sellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in 20th-century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.
©2014 Anita Diamant. All rights reserved. (P)2014 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Excellent Performance!
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Heartwarming!
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Great except the gratuitous remarks
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Welcome to the past
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not great...not bad...
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
The story is fairly boring and predictable. There is nothing special about it. There are so many other stories in this genre that are much more interesting and exciting. With all that said, this story is nice enough.Would you ever listen to anything by Anita Diamant again?
Yes, if the story were better.What three words best describe Linda Lavin’s performance?
"Alice", Annoying, "Alice"! Her voice is just TOO distinctive and I can't believe the character because all I can think of is Linda Lavin. It's not her fault. I just find it difficult to for characters to be credible when the voice is SO recognizable.Could you see The Boston Girl: A Novel being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
YES... I would rather see "unknowns" in the roles.Nothing Special
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The Boston Girl
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What a warm and wonderful book!
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