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100 1  Gaffney, Elizabeth Mallory. 
245 10 When the world was young :|ba novel /|cElizabeth Gaffney.
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264  1 |bRandom House Digital,|c2014. 
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520    Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her 
       grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't 
       like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder 
       Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a 
       misfit'especially in the shadow of her dazzling but 
       unstable mother, Stella. Acclaimed author Elizabeth 
       Gaffney's irresistible novel captures postwar Brooklyn 
       through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up 
       with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected 
       wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught 
       landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths 
       about the world'its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts,
       its limitations. But Wally also finds hope and strength in
       the unlikeliest places. With an unforgettable cast of 
       characters, including the increasingly distant and 
       distracted Stella; Loretta, the family's black maid and 
       Wally's second mother; Ham, Loretta's son, who shares 
       Wally's enthusiasm for ants and exploration; Rudy, Wally's
       father, a naval officer, away serving in the Pacific; and 
       Mr. Niederman, the family's boarder, who never seems to 
       answer Wally's questions'and who she suspects may have 
       something to hide'Elizabeth Gaffney crafts an immersive, 
       beautifully realized novel about the truths that divide 
       and the love that keeps us together. Advance praise for 
       When the World Was Young "In this beautifully written 
       novel'an honest and irresistible ride through post'World 
       War II America in all its glory and its shame'Elizabeth 
       Gaffney explores mothers and daughters, upstairs and 
       downstairs, loveless marriages and passionate affairs, 
       without ever losing her story or the fabulous characters 
       that inhabit it."'B. A. Shapiro, New York Times 
       bestselling author of The Art Forger "When the World Was 
       Young is an enormous achievement'fun, sad, beautiful, 
       perhaps the best book about Brooklyn in the war years 
       since the war years. Gaffney now stands in the company of 
       E.L. Doctorow, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Patchett, and I 
       can't think of many others tall enough."'Darin Strauss, 
       author of Chang and Eng and Half a Life "Dignified and 
       fierce, a work of complex and unconventional beauty ... 
       Through Wally and her glamorous doctor mother, Gaffney 
       movingly explores wartime passions, the emotional 
       sacrifices made by strong women on the home front, and the
       wounding power of secrets."'Sheri Holman, author of The 
       Dress Lodger "The genius of When the World Was Young is 
       that, in re-creating a particularly gorgeous and promise-
       filled moment in American history, it also reminds us how 
       constricting that moment could be for an adventurous soul 
       caught living in it. Elizabeth Gaffney is in perfect 
       control of her material, and captures all the 
       complications of what we might like to remember as an 
       uncomplicated time."'Jonathan Dee, author of A Thousand 
       Pardons and The Privileges "A powerhouse novel with a rich
       cast of unforgettable characters ... At the heart of the 
       quick-paced narrative is young Wally Baker, and her voice 
       and her manner, her courage and her life-affirming 
       decision during a time of crisis will long be remembered, 
       as indeed this richly textured novel will be 
       remembered."'Nicholas Rinaldi, author of Between Two 
       Rivers "Wally Baker, the protagonist of Elizabeth 
       Gaffney's fine historical novel, is an undeniable, 
       irrepressible, and thoroughly unforgettable heroine for 
       any century."'Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful 
       Life. 
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