When the world was young
a novel
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Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9781400064687
- Internet Archivewhenworldwasyoun0000gaff_r1i4
- Internet Archivewhenworldwasyoun0000gaff_u8m2
- ISBN-101400064686
- ISBN-139781400064687
and 7 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2013015485
- ISBN-139870812996012
- OCLC Control Number841557820
- Better World BooksP6-AYM-185
- Better World Books9781400064687
- Better World Books645-BAA-280
- Open LibraryOL26317012M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3607.A355 W54 2014
- LCCPS3607.A355W54 2014
Description
Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit-- especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. This novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths about the world-- its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limitations. But Wally also finds hope and strength in the unlikeliest places. A novel about the truths that divide and the love that keeps us together.
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