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Start giftingWhen the World Was Young
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Learn moreWally 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.
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney's irresistible novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally's eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up with the rest of America. Reeling from her own unexpected wartime tragedy and navigating an increasingly fraught landscape, Wally is forced to confront painful truths about the world—its sorrows, its prejudices, its conflicts, its limitations. But Wally also finds hope and strength in the unlikeliest places.
With an unforgettable cast of characters, Elizabeth Gaffney crafts an immersive, beautifully realized novel about the truths that divide and the love that keeps us together.
Elizabeth Gaffney is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Metropolis. Her stories have appeared in such literary magazines as the Virginia Quarterly Review and the North American Review, and she has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Blue Mountain Center. A former staff editor at the Paris Review, Elizabeth teaches fiction at the New School and serves as the editor-at-large of the literary magazine A Public Space. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughters.
Caitlin Davies is a New York City-based actress, director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. She has narrated a number of popular series and has been nominated for multiple Voice Arts Awards. She was also part of the full cast recording of The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, which received an AudioFile Earphones Award. Audiobooks she's narrated have been Top Ten selections for YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults and have received starred Booklist reviews and Parents' Choice Awards. Caitlin holds a BA in English from Vassar College and an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory.