Books: It's a Woman's World

TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER (274 pp.) —Betty Smith—Harper ($3).

For her second novel, Betty Smith has returned to the community she made famous in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But she has not written so good a novel.

Tomorrow Will Be Better is the story of Margy Shannon of Maujer Street, the plainly dressed, neatly combed daughter of a factory worker, of her loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of...