Evan’s Reviews > A Tree Grows in Brooklyn > Status Update

She read a page from the Bible and Shakespeare every night the same as always. She practiced the piano every day for an hour… Nothing was changing. She was the one who was changing.
She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said,
"You have a bad case, a very bad case."
"Of what?"
"Growing up."