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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith • Annie Dillard (Introduction)
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- 1998
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- 490 PAGES
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It's an Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven). They're very hardy trees, coming up in cracks in the pavement, even through gratings in the sidewalk. This is a much-beloved story of a girl in turn-of-the-20th-century Brooklyn, who, like the tree, surmounts harrowing obstacles -- poverty, hunger, a stern mother. Enormously descriptive of the Brooklyn of its time. Originally published in the 1940s.
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