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When the world was young, a novel, Elizabeth Gaffney

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When the world was young, a novel, Elizabeth Gaffney

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

When the world was young

Oclc number

841557820

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Gaffney

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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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