2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female Narrator

New York Instances bestseller!

An unforgettable book about a young Jewish woman developing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, informed “with laughter and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)-from the acclaimed writer of The Crimson Tent.

Anita Diamant’s “brilliant, affectionate family portrait of American womanhood” (LA Moments), follows the life span of one female, Addie Baum, through an interval of dramatic change. Addie is The about The Boston Gal: A Book Boston Woman, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family members, blessed in 1900 to parents who had been unprepared for America and its own effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s cleverness and curiosity consider her to a global her parents can’t imagine-a globe of short dresses, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for females. Addie really wants to surface finish senior high school and dreams of going to university. She wants a career and to find true love. Through the one-room tenement apartment she distributed to her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a community settlement house, to her 1st, disastrous romance, to locating the like of her existence, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her activities with humor and compassion for the naïve lady she once was.

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