Download When the World Was Young AudioBook Free
Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Marvel Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit - especially in the shadow of her amazing but unstable mom, Stella. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney's amazing novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she matures with the others of America. Reeling from her own unforeseen wartime tragedy and navigating an extremely fraught landscape, Wally is pressured to confront unpleasant truths about the globe - its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limits. But Wally also discovers hope and strength in the unlikeliest places. With an remarkable cast of people, Elizabeth Gaffney crafts an immersive, attractively realized book about the truths that split and the love that maintains us together.
