Despite receiving little sustenance, the tree’s steady growth demonstrated a will to live, and Katie declared that Francie, too, would survive.įrom the age of three, Francie babysits her younger brother while her mother works menial jobs and her father waits for singing-waiter gigs or gets drunk to forget about the mounting pressures of his responsibilities. Whenever people made this prediction, however, Katie would point to a struggling tree growing out of a grating nearby. When Francie was born, she was so sickly and blue that people believed that she wouldn’t live. Francie and Neeley bring in additional household income by rag-picking, or collecting trash on the street and in their building, and turning in the materials to Carney’s junk business for cash. Francie Nolan, is an eleven-year-old girl living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her ten-year-old brother, Neeley, her mother, Katie, and her father, Johnny.
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