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Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened : comparemela.com
Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
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