The release date for the English version of 'The Boston Girl' by
Anita Diamant is Dec 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This remarkable coming-of-age story about friendship, feminism, familial connections and values, and growing up in Boston during the early 20th century is written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night.
The Boston Girl, Addie Baum, was born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were wary of America and its impact on their three children. Addie's brilliance and curiosity transport her to a world her parents can't fathom—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new prospects for women. Addie grew up in the North End, which was a bustling ethnic area. Addie hopes to attend college after graduating from high school. She wants both a profession and real love.
In response to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter's question, "How did you get to be the woman you are today?" eighty-five-year-old Addie narrates the tale of her life. She starts in 1915, the year she discovered her voice and established acquaintances who would influence her life's path. With a wicked sense of humor and sympathy for the naive child she was, Addie remembers her travels from her first catastrophic love affair to the one-room tenement apartment she lived with her parents and two sisters, to the library club for girls she attends at a local settlement home.
Written with the same emotional resonance and historical detail that made Anita Diamant's earlier books best-sellers, The Boston Girl is an intriguing look at a generation of women figuring out their places in a world that is changing, as well as a moving portrait of one woman's complex life in twentieth-century America.