Summary of Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Betty Smith's "e;A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"e; follows Francie Nolan's life in early 20th-century Brooklyn.

Francie's childhood is marked by poverty, but she finds solace in reading and her vivid imagination.

Her father, Johnny, is a singing waiter with a drinking problem, and her mother, Katie, is a janitress who instills the importance of education in her children...