A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By: Betty Smith
Genre: fiction
Pages: 496
Published: 2008
Audiobook: 12 CD’s (15
hours and 2 minutes)
Read: August
4 out of 5
This novel grabs the reader immediately. I love that a child narrates the story and simply tells of her life growing up in the 1900’s. It helps give the reader a perspective on how the world has evolved. I also was engrossed by the fact that although a fictional story; it was written in a realistic fashion. You can imagine everything in this story happening back in the 1900’s. From the financial struggles a family faces to the fact that women were looked upon as only housewives. I loved that Francis was a strong character and a young woman who never let ideas of others stand in her way. She consistently stood up in what she believed to not only her family, but also the community as a whole. However, the audiobook was poorly recorded and the narrator’s voice “changed” throughout the story causing the story not to flow.
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