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Essay in Ploughshares: Student Debt and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • October 19, 2018
  • Essays, Joy's Work, Nonfiction

Betty Smith

I wrote an essay for Ploughshares on Student Debt and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the novel written by Betty Smith. It looks at the difficulty of paying for school, both now, and in Smith’s time. Things have changed, but not enough.

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