A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith’s classic novel of a young girl growing up in a poor, immigrant community of the early 1900s. The beloved American classic about the coming of age of a young girl at the turn of the twentieth century is filled with the everyday details of life in a tough immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York—from the warmth and closeness of her loving family to the pain and cruelty that accompany other people’s misconceptions about their eccentricities. With honesty and tenderness, Betty Smith captures childhood’s joys and disappointments.