Book Meme Prompt...
Jan. 17th, 2021 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatToday's prompt is A Book that takes place in your home town.
My hometown? I live in Brooklyn at the moment, do you have any idea how many books have taken place in Brooklyn?
Prior to that my home town was the suburbs of Kansas City...so there's the book written and set at my high school...
What's the Matter with Kansas - How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank (who apparently graduated from my high school the year after I did.
I've never read it. My parents did. I didn't need to read it - I knew. I went to law school in Lawrence, Kansas - and spent time with them.
Let's see...I can't find anything that takes place in my childhood hometown of West Chester, Pa.
So...going with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - which I first read in the late 1990s, when I first moved to Brooklyn.
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.
Don't remember the story at all. So stole the synopsis from Good Reads.
My hometown? I live in Brooklyn at the moment, do you have any idea how many books have taken place in Brooklyn?
Prior to that my home town was the suburbs of Kansas City...so there's the book written and set at my high school...
What's the Matter with Kansas - How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank (who apparently graduated from my high school the year after I did.
I've never read it. My parents did. I didn't need to read it - I knew. I went to law school in Lawrence, Kansas - and spent time with them.
Let's see...I can't find anything that takes place in my childhood hometown of West Chester, Pa.
So...going with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - which I first read in the late 1990s, when I first moved to Brooklyn.
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.
Don't remember the story at all. So stole the synopsis from Good Reads.