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A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
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.
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-An engrossing novel about friendship, race, the magic of place and the relentlessness of change.---People Magazine
-Woodson manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. Another Brooklyn is another name for poetry.---Washington Post
-Woodson does for young black girls what short story master Alice Munroe does for poor rural ones: She imbues their everyday lives with significance.---Elle
-...it is the personal encounters that form the gorgeous center of this intense, moving novel...Structured as short vignettes, each reading more like prose poetry than traditional narrative, the novel unfolds as memory does, in burning flashes, thick with detail...---New York Times Book Review
-With Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson has delivered a love letter to loss, girlhood, and home. It is a lyrical, haunting exploration of family, memory, and other ties that bind us to one another and the world.---Boston Globe
-Gorgeously written and moving, Another Brooklyn is an examination of the complexities of youth and adolescence, loss, friendship, family, race, and religion.---Jarry Lee, Buzzfeed
-The novel's richness defies its slim page count. In her poet's prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life parallel to the one we're living.---Booklist (Starred Review)
-Another Brooklyn reads like a love song to girlhood...---Bustle
-There are nothrowaway sentences in Another Brooklyn -- each short, poetic line feels carefully loved and polished. The first half of this novel asks urgent questions; the second delivers uneasy, heartbreaking answers. At its core, this book is about fragility, how light shines in the broken places.---Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
-In this elegant and moving novel, Jacqueline Woodson explores the beauty and burden of growing up girl in 1970's Brooklyn through the lens of one unforgettable narrator. The guarded hopes and whispered fears that August and her girlfriends share left me thinking about the limits and rewards of friendship well after the novel's end. Full of moments of grief, grace, and wonder, Another Brooklyn proves that Jacqueline Woodson is a master storyteller.---Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a finalist for the National Book Award
-Woodson manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. Another Brooklyn is another name for poetry.---Washington Post
-Woodson does for young black girls what short story master Alice Munroe does for poor rural ones: She imbues their everyday lives with significance.---Elle
-...it is the personal encounters that form the gorgeous center of this intense, moving novel...Structured as short vignettes, each reading more like prose poetry than traditional narrative, the novel unfolds as memory does, in burning flashes, thick with detail...---New York Times Book Review
-With Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson has delivered a love letter to loss, girlhood, and home. It is a lyrical, haunting exploration of family, memory, and other ties that bind us to one another and the world.---Boston Globe
-Gorgeously written and moving, Another Brooklyn is an examination of the complexities of youth and adolescence, loss, friendship, family, race, and religion.---Jarry Lee, Buzzfeed
-The novel's richness defies its slim page count. In her poet's prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life parallel to the one we're living.---Booklist (Starred Review)
-Another Brooklyn reads like a love song to girlhood...---Bustle
-There are nothrowaway sentences in Another Brooklyn -- each short, poetic line feels carefully loved and polished. The first half of this novel asks urgent questions; the second delivers uneasy, heartbreaking answers. At its core, this book is about fragility, how light shines in the broken places.---Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
-In this elegant and moving novel, Jacqueline Woodson explores the beauty and burden of growing up girl in 1970's Brooklyn through the lens of one unforgettable narrator. The guarded hopes and whispered fears that August and her girlfriends share left me thinking about the limits and rewards of friendship well after the novel's end. Full of moments of grief, grace, and wonder, Another Brooklyn proves that Jacqueline Woodson is a master storyteller.---Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a finalist for the National Book Award
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- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0606403604
- ISBN 13 9780606403603
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages192
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