When the world was young : a novel
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New York : Random House, [2014].
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New York : Random House, [2014].
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x, 298 pages ; 25 cm.
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Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit-- especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. This novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths about the world-- its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limitations. But Wally also finds hope and strength in the unlikeliest places. A novel about the truths that divide and the love that keeps us together.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gaffney, E. (2014). When the world was young: a novel (First edition.). Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gaffney, Elizabeth. 2014. When the World Was Young: A Novel. Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gaffney, Elizabeth. When the World Was Young: A Novel Random House, 2014.

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Gaffney, Elizabeth. When the World Was Young: A Novel First edition., Random House, 2014.

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