Review: Rare find - opens the door and soul to 1950s America
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2013
It's not often I find a little gem like this one. I did not know exactly what I would expect when I picked up this novel other than tickling my curiosity for reading about family histories. Boy, am I so glad I selected this novel.  It's truly a doorway to the heart and soul of the type of people who lived in Brooklyn in the 1950s, and has not only a charm in the way it tells you about everyday domestic life as seen through the eyes of a 9 year old, but reveals the not so visible tensions and issues of the time, from the importance of religion which we almost ignore in the 21st Century, to the constant worry of ill-health and how death at an earlier age was commonplace then.A wonderful book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.