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I already had A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on my Kindle, and had started to read its frist chapters before I started this project. Then I picked it up again a few days ago, and since then I could not put it down. The book is about the first 17 years of a working class girl, Francie Nolan, and her family who lives in the poor people´s area in Brooklyn. When the book came out in 1947, shortly after WWII, it was an immense success, and with a new translation here on Norway these days, it has become a success once again.
Francia Nolan, the little girl growing into a woman. How I would have loved to know that girl. She is described so real, so vulnerable, so strong. I cried with her, I laughed with her.
When I read books I often read with a pencil. This is kind of harder when you read books on the Kindle, but this time I did some highlights. Like when Francie tells her brother about the first time she saw a tulip:
"Last spring, in McCarren´s Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life." "!How do you know it was a tulip if you´d ever seen one?" "I´d seen pictures. Well, when I looked at it, the way it was growing, and how the leaves were, and how purely red the petals were, with yellow inside, the world turned updide down and everythning went around like the colours in the kaleidoscope .......I was so dizzy I had to sit on a park bench."
My daughters are not readers the way I am. But this is a book I want them to read. I will buy them a copy each and give it as a special mother gift.
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The photo is a tree growing in Kew Gardens in London :-)
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