A character who works as a teletypist in this area falls in love with Lee Rhynor, a married soldier about to ship out to France.
In a sexually charged scene from a novel titled for this place, the protagonist tries on bathing suits with the help of her work supervisor Miss Fortini, who comments on her unshaved pubic hair. In a novel set in this area, a woman shoots a serial rapist who ambushes her daughter in the stairwell of their home, but her third pregnancy drives her husband Johnny to drink until he dies of pneumonia on Christmas. The parish priest Father Flood encourages Eilis Lacey to emigrate from Ireland to this area in search of a better life, in a 2009 novel by (*) Colm TÃ³ibÃ­n. A character who works as a teletypist in this area falls in love with Lee Rhynor, a married soldier about to ship out to France. After reflecting on her brother Neeley's prowess as a jazz pianist, the protagonist of that novel set here watches the title object sprout in the yard of her tenement building, a symbol of her family's resilience. For 10 points, Francie Nolan is the protagonist of a Betty Smith novel titled for a tree that "grows in" what New York City borough?
In a sexually charged scene from a novel titled for this place, the protagonist tries on bathing suits with the help of her work supervisor Miss Fortini, who comments on her unshaved pubic hair.
Brooklyn [accept Williamsburg, where A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is specifically set; prompt on New York City] 