Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (320 pgs., CD)

The audio is narrated by Linda Lavin (old sitcom - Alice). She has a great grandmotherly hard core Boston accent. The grandmother tells her life story as a child born in 1900 to immigrant parents who are adjusting to life in America. As a young girl who can't be tamed, she sees and experiences many changes including the progress of the status of women in the early twentieth century.

Amazon: Eighty-five year old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two year old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today?" She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and her wicked sense of humor.