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RELATED: Review: Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth GilbertĪnd while the premise of a loving yet flawed family living in dirt-poor Brooklyn is a simple one, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn uses stunning prose, a rich tapestry of multi-generational characters and the age-old idea of the American dream to deliver a poignant and powerful story of a young girl learning to persevere – like the tree of the book’s title – to make a better life for both herself and those around her.Ī story about poor but proud working-class Americans, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a beautiful and beloved tale of what it really means to be human. And while her mother loves them both fiercely, she often seems to favour Neeley, leaving Francie feeling unloved and unwanted. The children’s adored father Johnny is a jobbing singing waiter, and – despite the love he has for both his wife and children – is plagued by demons and alcoholism, leaving him unable to properly look after or provide for his family. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Book ReviewĪ beautiful coming of age tale that follows the Nolan family – parents Katie and Johnny, their eleven-year-old daughter Francie Nolan – a girl who her grandmother Mary Rommely believed was destined for a special life – and her younger brother Neeley, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a gentle, understated, and at times heartbreaking story that offers a glimpse into a little corner of the world a century ago, and yet still has the power to resonate with readers today.įrancie is a truly memorable character – who does her best to find beauty and meaning in the day to day – despite her family’s financial woes and the relentless poverty their lives are plagued with. Knowing I had tried – and failed – to read it on a couple of previous occasions, but also aware that it was globally adored by critics and readers alike, I blocked out a solid two hours that very afternoon, turned my phone off and set about reading Betty Smith’s best loved book. Calculating that if I even wanted to make a slight dent in them that I would have to read at least 100 pages a day before the year was out, I scanned my new to-be-read pile, and decided to begin with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. After a swift perusal of my bookcases to find as many of the fifteen as I could, I soon after discovered that a handful of them were rather substantial in size: with Don Quixote, Middlesex, The Hearts Invisible Furies and The Golden Notebook all topping 500 pages.
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Given that we were a week or so into November at the time, I read through the list, and saw – with some horror – that of the twenty books, I had read just five. A week or so ago, I came across a list of twenty books I had promised myself I would read by the end of 2021.
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