01899cam a2200349 i 4500 203471725 TxAuBib 20150212120000.0 140728s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014019284 9781439199350 hbk. 1439199353 hbk. TxAuBib rda Diamant, Anita. The Boston girl : a novel / Anita Diamant. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2014. 322 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A story "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. 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 twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today.""-- Provided by publisher. Adult. 20150212. Jewish women Massachusetts Boston Fiction. Feminism Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Jewish. FICTION / Literary. Boston (Mass) History 20th century Fiction. Historical Fiction.