The Boston Girl Diamant, Anita

Boston, 1985. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells her granddaughter the story of growing up as the daughter of Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s — a world of tenement apartments, Yiddish-speaking parents who didn't understand America, and a girl desperate to read, learn, and become something more. From discovering the library to finding her voice at a settlement house, from first love to heartbreak to building a life on her own terms, Addie's journey captures a transforming America through one woman's fierce determination to live fully. Anita Diamant writes with warmth and insight about friendship, identity, and the radical act of a working-class girl claiming an education. For anyone who loves intergenerational stories, immigrant narratives, or simply a good yarn about a woman who refused to be small.