Girls of Tender Age : A Memoir
, by Tirone Smith, Mary-AnnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780743279789 | 0743279786
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/9/2007
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. InGirls 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.