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It's very telling when you sit down to write a review of a novel, and your mind completely blanks on the protagonist's name. The heroine of this 1939 story (by the author of The Velveteen Rabbit) could in fact be any well meaning nice young lady in reduced circumstances -- ah wait, her name has just come back to me: Dale. With her family home broken up due to lack of money after her father's death, Dale has to make her own way in New York City while her mother and little sister go off to live wi...
A predictable, earnest tale, but an enjoyable one. I enjoyed the descriptions of late 1930s NYC.
You knew it was coming the first time it introduced Dick. And it also took a while for it to penetrate that this book was written to show how obvious it was that she'd think she was always failing, because this is the nature of jobs for so many people nowadays, whether intentionally or not, and I and lots of people I know don't think of it as failure at all--I spent the first half of the book thinking this was a cool story about all the experiences she got to have in so short a time, and of cour...