Anita Diamant follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, 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. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, 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.
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Anita Diamant
Nascida em Nova Iorque, Anita Diamant é uma premiada jornalista e autora de cinco livros sobre a vida judaica contemporânea. <br><br> Formou-se em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de Washington e fez um mestrado em língua inglesa na State University de Nova Iorque. <br><br> Durante mais de 20 anos, como jornalista freelance, escreveu artigos para diversos jornais e revistas, tais como o New England Monthly, o Boston Globe, Parenting e outros. A partir de 1985, ela começou a escrever artigos sobre as práticas judaicas contemporâneas e a comunidade judaica. <br><br> <i>A Tenda Vermelha é sua primeira obra de ficção<br><br> Atualmente a autora mora em Massachussets, nos Estados Unidos, com seu marido e filha Emilia.
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