A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"I adored all of L. M. Montgomery. "Little Women." "The Secret Garden." "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.""

"“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” I read it when I was 10 years old and an outcast. Finding a “friend” like little Francie Nolan, who also was not very popular but also loved reading and her no-’count drunken dad, was a real revelation."

"As a kid, I identified with Francie in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." The Brooklyn into which I was born still looked like the Brooklyn she described, and the people were not so dissimilar."