The slums of Brooklyn, and the Irish Catholics, form the setting for the story of Francie Nolan and her family:- Johnny, her father, handsome and shiftless Katie, her mother, hardening under years of poverty and improvidence Neeley, Katie's favorite child Aunt Sissy, a good 'bad woman,' and chiefly Francie herself, gentle, shy, imaginative. "A first novel of unusual quality and understanding, written with strong realism and compassion, sometimes bald, always human, this rightfully ranks with the Farrell genre, though, to my thinking, there is better balance and more sympathy. Literary Guild choice for September, it should go farther than the usual first novel. This is a repeat for a novel we reported last March (see P.
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