Next TSS Book Club – The Boston Girl

The next TSS Book Club selection…

The Boston Girl
by Anita Diamant

The book group will meet on Tuesday, March 24, 2015,
at the home of Andrea and Don Bastian (5995 Shepherd Hills Ave, Wescosville) at 7:15 pm.

Here’s what to do:
Read the book.
Show up to discuss it.
Nothin’ to it!

About the book:
The TSS book group will read the New York Times bestselling author, Anita Diamant’s latest novel, The Boston Girl.

The Boston Girl is an unforgettable novel about family ties, 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 Boston’s North End, 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.

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?” She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her family, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures. The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.
Please RSVP to: Margie Hertz (mhertz@ptd.net) or
Marcia Berkow (mhberkow@gmail.com)

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