Would recommend: Maybe

Okay, I confess: I had no idea what this book was about. I heard it was a coming-of-age story, so with the title, I figured it was about a little girl sitting in a tree and growing up in Brooklyn. Which, it was, for about two pages. I just found the whole thing so melancholy, kind of like a hybrid of All-of-a-Kind Family and Angela's Ashes. But, I thought the language was really lovely, and I'm sure I'll read it again. I just don't get how this book was not terribly depressing for the people who read it as children.