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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1943
- Pages
- Pages 500
A poor Brooklyn girl grows up on a tenement fire escape between a loving, drunk father who cannot hold a job and a mother who can, reading her way out through library books until she is finally old enough to leave for a life of her own.
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven.
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