Books with author Anna Fields (Narrator) Betty Smith

This is the profoundly moving story of a young girl coming of age at the turn of the century. Francie Nolan lived with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919, where, as an imaginative, alert, and resourceful child, she grows up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of a great city’s poor.

This is the profoundly moving story of a young girl coming of age at the turn of the century. Francie Nolan lived with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919, where, as an imaginative, alert, and resourceful child, she grows up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of a great city’s poor.

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A classic coming-of-age novel follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Read by Anna Fields. Book available.

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