Joy Street
Book description
A young woman brought up in a Brahmin family on Beacon Hill falls in love with a man from a very different background.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Joy Street as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Keyes was a journalist (she died in 1970), and her background informed every novel she wrote.
Joy Street is set primarily in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. At the time I read this book, I had never been to Boston. When I finally visited that city several years later, her descriptions of the area in and around Beacon Hill still were so vivid in my mind that I felt as though I already knew the neighbourhood intimately.
Keyes had an equally deft hand with character development and plot. Joy Street is a book populated with characters that seem real…
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