The Boston Girl: A Novel

Written by:
Anita Diamant
Narrated by:
Linda Lavin

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
35
Narrator
16
Release Date
December 2014
Duration
7 hours 39 minutes
Summary
2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female Narrator

New York Times bestseller!

An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent.

Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was.

Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. “Diamant brings to life a piece of feminism’s forgotten history” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning portrait of immigrant life in the early twentieth century” (Booklist).
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Jackie Dunn

I really loved this book. The narrator was lovely to listen to!

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Mary Beaudreau

Excellent story and the narration was perfect. Loved it.

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Babara Perlman

loved it. . It was very real.. The narration was very good also

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Hannah Rowley

Loved this book! Loved the narration with just the right inflections and accents!

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lance morgenstern

I very much enjoyed this book. It was my first audio book and I enjoyed the narrators voice.

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Joanne Donsky

Not a great book. I expected something more interesting from Anita Diamant.

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Christine King

I really enjoyed both the book and the narration.

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Lindsay Stewart

The narrator was my favorite. I loved the way she captured all the emotions of the character. Great summer read!

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Wendy Mercado

I really enjoyed this story, and the narrator! It's nice to read a happy story!!

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Kim Mackay

Loved it. Loved the narration it really made the story come to life. Was a great story which was enhanced by the narrator.

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