The Boston Girl felt to me like an interesting mix of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and my grandmothers’ stories and the result was engaging, sometimes deeply moving, but not groundbreaking.  That is, this novel feels a bit old fashioned even though the narrator, Addie Baum, herself talks frankly about women’s issues in the first half of the 20th century.  The frame is that Addie Baum is being interviewed by her granddaughter, Ava, in 1985 and is asked to discuss how she became the […]