This is a sweet story. An elderly woman is recalling her young life in Boston as a Jewish girl, mainly during the years 1915-1927. (After that she summarizes the rest of her life in a few pages). 
 Those of you who know me know that I like a realistic, straight-forward story of a girl's coming of age--hardships, triumphs, love interests and all that. 
 (Am I getting boring to some of my goodreads friends who lean to the literary/more complex fiction? I wouldn't be surprised). I appreciate good story-telling, plain and simple. This one could've had more romantic scenes, but the narrator is talking to her grand-daughter, so this is very clean.