Post-war Brooklyn Heights Comes Alive in the Novel <em>When the World Was Young</em>

In Elizabeth Gaffney’s new novel, When the World Was Young, postwar Brooklyn comes alive through the character of Wally Baker, a young girl whose love of Wonder Woman comics and ants, and hatred of dresses, needlepoint, and manners, makes her feel like an outcast in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother.