All of my books tell a historical story from a very close-up, not global, perspective. I sketched out the characters-all of whom are in Boston Girl, but Addie emerged as the strongest it became her story. I learned all of this amazing history and wanted to write a book about this era and place the book in Rockport Lodge. There was even a law school that only women went to. Organizations were being founded to help women and girls. I originally planned to write a novel about the lodge, did research on it and found myself in a very progressive era for women. The land was sold and the money was given to a domestic abuse program-so it continues to live on in a different way. There is a real place called Rockport Lodge, where women of limited means could go. As usual, I started in a different place and wound up with Addie. Is she inspired by your grandmother?ĪD: No, not my grandmother. We talked to Diamant about writing The Boston Girl and what it’s like to see her groundbreaking novel The Red Tent reimagined on the small screen in a Lifetime miniseries.
Her lifelong friendships with the “Saturday Club Girls,” Filomena and Gussie, her sisters, the tragic and desperately sad Celia and the strong and inspiring Betty, and her beloved husband, Aaron, all influence her life and the woman she ultimately becomes. Through Addie’s warm, wise and wickedly funny words, we learn what it was like for a young girl, born to immigrant parents, to come of age in America post-World War I. In her novel The Boston Girl (Scribner), Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent, brings us the story of Addie, who at 85 shares her life story with her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter.
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