The Boston Girl: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female Narrator

New York Times bestseller!

An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman developing up in Boston in the first twentieth century, informed “with humor and optimism…through the eye of an amazing heroine” (People)-from the acclaimed author of The Crimson Tent.

Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate family portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Situations), follows the life of one girl, Addie Baum, through an interval of dramatic change. Addie is The about The Boston Gal: A Novel Boston Young lady, the spirited child of an immigrant Jewish family, blessed in 1900 to parents who have been unprepared for America and its own effect on their three daughters. Developing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural community, Addie’s cleverness and curiosity take her to a global her parents can’t imagine-a globe of short dresses, movies, celebrity tradition, and new possibilities for females. Addie really wants to finish high school and dreams of likely to university. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement house she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the collection group for girls she joins at a community settlement home, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her existence, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her activities with humor and compassion for the naïve gal she once was.

Written using the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that produced Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl can be a moving portrait of 1 woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating take a look at a generation of ladies finding their sites in a changing world. “Diamant brings alive a bit of feminism’s neglected background” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning family portrait of immigrant life in the first twentieth hundred years” (Booklist).