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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children of Francie’s neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a novel of childhood, replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences—a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.

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Highly recommended particulary for the under 18 and older than 12 crowd. This is the book that convinced my sixth grade self that I wasn't uncool for spending so much time reading and dreaming. For if those things were satisfying for Francie Nolan they were good enough for me. I loved the quiet pathos of the book. Francie's mother's determination to teach her children with nightly readings of William Shakespeare and the Bible are in stark contrast to their father's devil may care attitude. Her father encouraged Francie to dream big .. her mother taught her that dreams are fine as long as you keep one foot on the ground.I think this book is equally compelling for adults. There are adult situations. Situations like alcoholism , deviant behavior, and death that serve as a perfect way to introduce and discuss these matters with young tweens and teens. It has been almost 80 years since publication but the novel has aged very well. After 40 years and rereadimg the book countless times Framcie Nolan is still my literary friend. This book is simply marvelous.
This book is thought to be semi autobiographical. Written years ago, it is amazing how much is true today. Especially in the political arena. The story is simply about a family living in Brooklyn as seen through the eyes of the young daughter, born in approximately 1900. The plot is simply the day to day life and struggles of the family consists of Johnny and Katie Nolan, their son Neely and daughter Francie. Appearing frequently are Katies two sisters and their family. The father, Johnny, is an alcoholic who seldom works but who is looked upon by Francie as a hero. Katie works as a scrub woman cleaning several tenement buildings. Other than an occasional singing waiter's job that Johnny finds And almost more than the money he brings home is the leftover food he is allowed to take to his family at the end of the night., Katie is the primary source of the family's support. Johnny is a dreamer who keeps saying his ship is going to come in but it never does. Katie is pragmatic. I found one conversation between the two to be very interesting when they were discussing an upcoming election. Johnny was a union man and therefore a democrat. Women didn't have the right to vote yet but Katie was very astute and had figured out the democrat candidates came around only at election time making promises they never kept. And she also realized the democrats supported unfettered immigration because they thought all new immigrants would vote democrat once they were citizens. (Keep in mind this was written decades ago so please do not accuse me of inserting my own political thoughts into the book. It is the author who wrote it.) The two children had to help contribute to the support of the family by doing things that the kids of today would never do. They walked home from school with their eyes downcast, looking at the streets and sidewalks to find any penny that had been dropped, or a bit of foil, cigarette butts, pieces of cloth, that they could sell to the scrap metal man, or the rag picker to get a couple of pennies to take home. The children are sent out each Saturday to get some food that is cooked and eaten throughout the next week. They have to haggle with the meat man and oversee the green grocer's selection of a vegetable to ensure he doesn't stick them with something wilted. They are bullied and called names....usually by other children just as poor as they are....but they learn to endure. Eventually, after the death of their father, their circumstances actually improve because at the age of 13 and 14 the two kids get jobs and therefore are able to contribute their pay to the family. As the book ends, one has to wonder how many people today could actually live the life this family did. I'm sure that today's snowflakes couldn't cope with what this family did, especially when you hear that students of today need safe spaces whey they can play with puppies, or play dough all because they hear someone utter a comment with which they disagreed. This book should be required reading for every literature class, whether it be high school or college. It might open some eyes, and maybe some minds.

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