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Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit -- especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. Postwar Brooklyn is seen through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Her household also includes Loretta, the family's black maid...