A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-th e-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely --to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny . She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant ne ed of tr...[Read more]