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	• Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir Mary-Ann Tirone Smith Free Press, 2005 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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Great Great Great!

If I could rate this book six stars, I would! I loved this memoir so much! It was so rich with life and writing. I could not put it down! And when I did put it down I could not stop thinking of the great people in the novel. With such detail and consistency Mary-Ann Tirone Smith has wrote a book that will immortalize her in the world of memoirs. In my opinion, this book is so full of truth and honesty that it is like I was living alongside of her during her childhood and adulthood. Anyone who loves reading...BUY THIS BOOK!!

Insightful and Delightful

Ms. Smith's recent Poppy Rice mysteries the victum has been a young woman. Now at the end of Ms.Smith's memoir she quotes Graham Green: 'All writing is therapy. To some extent all writers seek their craft to heal a wound in themselves, to make themselves whole.'

This memoir she opens her wound for all to see. The murder of a young schoolmate, the mental illness of the killer, of her brother, of her mother, even of the whole community that killed her schoolmate a second time by hiding it almost completely.

Ms. Smith is an accomplished author, her eight novels prove that. In this book she proves it again, and further explains just a bit as to why.

The book itself is a masterpiece. It is at the same time sad, informative, funny, tragic, and provides great insight into a life. Highly recommended.

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A great memoir

Wow! What a marvelous tale of memroy, forgiveness, compassion... I was enraptured from page 1 and could not put the book down. Thankfully we've had lots of rainy weather which allowed me to remain glued to the story. For me, few books have have elicited such emotion. I loved it and have recommended it to all of my friends.

girls of tender age

I found this novel to be captivating from the first page into the last!!!!!!!
Having been raised in this area of Hartford, CT, I found myself actually reliving my childhood years. It was such a powerful novel in that it was sad but yet funny in some areas. I definitely want to read more of Mary-Anne's novels and encourage other readers to do so.

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Great crime and court story

This book tells the story of a girl growing up in Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. This tale is interspersed- every other chapter- with the life of a man named Bob Malm, until the two lives collide a third of the way through the book. Mary-Ann is a fifth grader with two working parents and an autistic brother, who must be carefully sheltered from the number four and the color red or he will bite his wrist, drawing blood. Bob Malm has a history of attacking young girls, but is continually released upon the streets because most of the victims will not testify against him and be embarrassed at trial- when one girl decides to testify, she is not believed. The result brings Bob into Mary-Ann's life.

Quote: "My smile isn't genuine. I don't' know how to fake a smile . . . The goat, a trained professional, has a lovely smile."

The way the author weaves these two stories together throughout the book, carefully bringing them closer and closer, was excellent. However, I found myself wanting to skip over the chapters about her childhood and family history that didn't seem interesting unless you were actually a member of the family. The latter portion of the book, concerning the attack, it's effect on the town, and the trial that follows, is fascinating, and the book is worth reading because of this.

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