American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood

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This is a beautifully written memoir about growing up in Bristol, Rhode Island, during the 1930s and 1940s. The author, a member of the editorial board of "The New York Times," relishes the simplicities and ample delights of her Irish Catholic childhood. Better than most flashes to the past, this one conveys on a primal level the embrace of place on one woman's soul.