Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood

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Slumber parties swimming pools boyfriends lakeside summers family holidays -- Susan Allen Toth has captured it all in this delightful account of growing up in Ames Iowa in the 1950s. Charming wise funny poignant and true BLOOMING celebrates an innocent and very American way of life. "Tender and finely textured . . . Mrs. Toth has re-created memories with a journalists ear and a novelists touch . . . . she has conveyed more clearly than anyone Ive ever read before what it was like to be a girl in the 50s." -- The New York Times Book Review