Another Brooklyn Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.

But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.

Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
August 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Amistad
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Joerum62 ,

Ghostly

Like a distant memory, “Another Brooklyn” filled me with a longing to know more than the mere snippets of these four girls’ lives than we’re given. Haunting, melancholy and beautiful all at once.

Lindsay Thérèse ,

A must read

A beautiful story about grief, growing up, religious journeys, the beauty and despair of the world all wrapped up in one. I truly could not put this book down once. I would recommend this to anyone.

jassixblanco ,

Yass!!!!

Read This A few Years Ago And I’ve Been In Love With Her Work Since then 💕🙏🏽

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