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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW | Betty Smith
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Bookish_Gal
Mehso-so

I can see the hype of this classic. It shows life in Brooklyn from a poor girl who watches a tree continue to grow through adversity. I didn‘t really get that till the ending 10% thou, as that‘s when it started getting going for me. I think it was a different psychology look than I‘m used to. Demon Copperhead vibes, but that everything is going right but it barely goes right.

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ChelseaM6010
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Eggs Perfection 🌳 2y
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Bibliophile004
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Pickpick

I read this book for the first time as a freshman in hS. I‘ve read “A tree grows in Brooklyn” countless times since then, , usually around Christmas time. I look forward to it each year. It‘s a coming of age story of Francis Nolan. No matter where I am in life, it speaks to me in some way.

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LisaLovesToRead
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Pickpick

Such a great book! Developmental periods & emotions captured so beautifully!

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Quevedoes
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Pickpick

At first it took me a while to connect to this book. I started it in May 2020 and finished it just now. I have a bittersweet feeling. Growing up poor but being just as fun and as motivated to search for a brighter future.

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Yahui07
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Pickpick

Deserves the hype!

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TheSpineView
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OriginalCyn620 👌🏻📚💚🌳🗽 5y
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Sapphire
Pickpick

I first read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in my 20s when I discovered it on my grandparents bookshelf. It made a profound impact on me then. I read it again in my 30s as a new mom, at 40. Each time it's truth and poignancy struck me in a new way. So now that I am 50, I read it again. This time I listened to it on audible. It truly is a classic, and this time whether by change in age or medium, different characters resonated with me.

QBub I just started reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I wanted to discover why this was the most requested book by GIs in WWII. I think I‘m beginning to appreciate why. While a romanticized of back home is presented, the book seems to represent a simpler time, not necessarily a better time, a time that many of the GIs could identify with and long to return to. My guess is that it reminded many of life back home and why they were fighting. 3y
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PrezBookster
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Lmao

peaKnit 😂 7y
LibrarianJen ☕️☕️☕️ 7y
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PrezBookster
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🤗

ErinC One of my all-time favs 7y
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PrezBookster
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Snug, festive, and happy with a book!

ElizabethAndino My favorite book ever 7y
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PrezBookster
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8 pages in... Ive heard this is a great book so I‘m going to press on.. but wow..

KikiLovesBooks It very honestly portrays the tough lives of everyone living in Brooklyn at this time. It‘s a truly amazing American novel I think everyone should read. There are some very gritty scenes that will certainly stick with you. No romanticizing life in this one! (edited) 7y
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PrezBookster

Maybe it‘s the recent climate that I‘m so aware of this... but the first 7 pages have boys only stores and the junk man gives an extra penny to the girls if he can pinch their cheeks after the trade. Gross... 🤮 I don‘t know how girls and women held back their rage!

LeahBergen The junk man needs a swift kick in the junk. 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa We‘ve come a long way baby!✊ 7y
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KDecker
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#ReadJanuary A book everyone but you has read. I hope to read this by March!