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A tree grows in Brooklyn
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This phenomenon reminds me of a little bit maybe even a lot is one of my favorite books when I was a kid was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Angela Duckworth · No Stupid Questions · Oct 2020 Listen at 4:20 What they say about it
- Plans to reread“reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”2
The best things said about it
So when you're reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or even a memoir I mean memoirs are my favorite genre.
Angela Duckworth No Stupid Questions · Oct 2020 I remember that I was a young girl when I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn I felt some communality with the protagonist.
Angela Duckworth No Stupid Questions · Oct 2020 And there are other people who are like no I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Stephen Dubner No Stupid Questions · Nov 2021 And there are other people who are like, no, I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio · Dec 2020 Why people recommend it
A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is a classic coming-of-age novel depicting a young girl growing up in poverty in early twentieth-century Williamsburg. On No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discussed the phenomenon of forgetting details about beloved books, with Duckworth noting that memoirs and deeply personal novels are her favorite genre. Duckworth recalled reading the story as a young girl and feeling a deep sense of community and personal connection with the protagonist. Dubner later referenced the novel on Freakonomics Radio and No Stupid Questions as a prime example of the comforting, familiar literature that people frequently choose to reread during difficult times to seek emotional solace. Duckworth also brought up the book on a separate episode as a childhood favorite while discussing aspirational consumption and how individuals in straitened circumstances find intrinsic value in luxury or education. Across these conversations, the hosts used the novel to illustrate broader psychological concepts related to memory retention, personal identity formation, and the enduring comfort found in revisiting formative works of fiction from one's youth.
Every mention
Angela Duckworth so when you're reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or even a memoir I mean Memoirs are my favorite genre 3
“so when you're reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or even a memoir I mean Memoirs are my favorite genre”
“I remember that I was a young girl when I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn I felt some communality with the protagonist”
“this phenomenon reminds me of a little bit maybe even a lot is one of my favorite books when I was a kid was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Stephen Dubner and there are other people who are like no I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 3
“and there are other people who are like no I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“And there are other people who are like, no, I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”
“I've been thinking about a conversation that we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
“I've been thinking about a conversation that we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn do you recall this conversation”
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Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I like to remind people that one of the most famous books to come out of this burrow or about this burrow was titled a tree grows in Brooklyn, singular, right?”
“Stephen I've been thinking about a conversation that we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you said you loved that book but you couldn't remember a single thing about it”
“Stephen I've been thinking about a conversation that we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“Stephen, I've been thinking about a conversation we had about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. You said you loved that book, but you couldn't remember a single thing about it.”
“and there are other people who are like no I'm going to reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I don't know that there's anything more right about either of those approaches”
“so what this phenomenon reminds me of a little bit maybe even a lot is one of my favorite books when I was a kid was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn did you ever read it”
“referring to Betty Smith's uh wonderful novel at Tree Grows in Brooklyn”