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Girls of Tender Age
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Author:
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Tirone Smith, Mary-Ann
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North America, USA, Connecticut, Hartford
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Genre:
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Non-Fiction
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Time Frame:
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Late 20th Century
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Published:
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2005
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Description:
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With beauty, power, and remarkable wit, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith interweaves a bittersweet portrait of growing up among the working stiffs of 1950s Hartford, Connecticut, with the chilling progress of a serial pedophile who threatens to shatter her small town's innocence. In Girls of Tender Age, Smith lovingly evokes the jubilance and chaos of life in her extended French-Italian family and the challenges of living with her brother Tyler, an autistic at a time before anyone knew what that meant. Hanging over Smith's rough-and-tumble youth is the shadow of the approaching killer who forever alters the landscape of her childhood.
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