OSHER 601 - The Lives of Girls and Women

Good Winter Reads! These books are highly readable, and they will give us lots to talk about. They go well with hot chocolate and flannel pajamas. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Francie Nolan lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. ISBN-10: 0061120073 ISBN-13: 978-0061120077. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison. "I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne. I was named for and by oldest aunt. My mama didn't have much to say about it since, strictly speaking, she wasn't there." ISBN-10: 0452297753 ISBN-13: 978-0452297753. Interpreters of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, these interconnected stories by an author of Indian origin chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. ISBN-10: 039592720X ISBN-13: 978-0395927205