![]() She criticizes Addie for wasting her time studying and staying in school: “She’s already ruining her eyes from reading. Her mother, in particular, is a joyless hag. ![]() Deeply suspicious of America’s loose culture, at home Addie’s parents speak only Yiddish, mostly to bicker. ![]() “We had a stove, a table, a few chairs, and a saggy couch that Mameh and Papa slept on at night.”They eat a lot of potatoes and cabbage. “In 1915, there were four of us living in one room,” she begins. From there, she leads us through a series of episodes that have all the color and vibrancy of a plastic bouquet.Īddie was the plucky daughter of immigrants who escaped starvation and violence in Russia to settle in a tiny Boston apartment. ![]() Asked by her granddaughter to talk about how she got to be the person she is today, Addie takes us back to 1900, the year she was born. If this allegedly spontaneous memoir is any indication, she’s also the most well-organized 85-year-old woman in the world. ![]() Addie is cheery, alert and full of needlepointed wisdom. Anita Diamant’s new novel,“ The Boston Girl,” comes to us as the transcript of a tape-recorded monologue delivered by an 85-year-old woman named Addie Baum. ![]()
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