1.30.2008

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Review Haiku


Nothing much happens --
but in that nothing lies the
whole, wide, messy world.


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Harper, 1943, 493 pages.


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2 comments:

  1. Frank Dormer9:03 AM

    I know her daughter quite well.

    Frank
    the emily reads lurker.....

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  2. MotherReader8:02 PM

    That is one of my favorite books, and I love the way you summed it up.

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