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Dec 05, 2015
This book is the diary of a girl (Joan) who flees her life on a farm and goes to live with a Jewish family in baltimore. I had trouble enjoying it, because her emotions seem to flip flop between the positive ("I wish Mr. Rosenbach was my father!") and the theatrically negative. ("I'm sure I'm the unluckiest girl who ever lived!") The second half of this book is filled with a melodramatic romance for a guy she barely even met, which made the story drag on and on. The ending was pretty good, and made up for the middle, and while I found the 1911 perspectives on religion interesting, I did not enjoy the bulk of this book. This book is much worse than her other book, Splendors and Glooms. I do not recommend it.