![]() We first meet her as a young girl on a third floor fire escape, reading one of the latest books she has taken from the library (withdrawn in alphabetical order), looking over the patch of dirt out of which a tree had grown, “neither a pine nor a hemlock. ![]() My sense of the answer is found in the sheer determination and grit of the character through whom the story is told, Francie Nolan. The question one asks is what the abiding power of this book is. Many wrote Betty Smith to tell her of what it meant to them. ![]() Published in 1943, this was one of those “books that went to war,” a special edition of which was carried in the rucksacks of soldiers in World War II as a reminder of home. ![]() Summary: A coming of age story told through the eyes of Francie Nolan, about a girl’s life and ambitions in a struggling family in Brooklyn. New York: Harper Perennial, 2018 (originally published in 1943). ![]()
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