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Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson

By Jacqueline Woodson

Release Date: 2016-08-09

Genre: Literary Fiction

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A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017

A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 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, a found family 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 with lyrical, poetic prose exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson

By Jacqueline Woodson

Release Date: 2016-08-09

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (147 ratings)
Read Download
A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017

A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 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, a found family 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 with lyrical, poetic prose exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Another Brooklyn

Red at the Bone

Harbor Me

Locomotion

If You Come Softly

The Day You Begin

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Hush

Miracle's Boys

Feathers

Beneath a Meth Moon

After Tupac & D Foster

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Before the Ever After

If You Come Softly

Peace, Locomotion

Each Kindness

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Behind You

The House You Pass On The Way

Last Summer With Maizon

The Year We Learned to Fly

Sixteen

Pecan Pie Baby

Guys Read: The Distance

The Dear One

This Is the Rope

Lena

Maizon at Blue Hill

El día en que descubres quién eres

Visiting Day

Remember Us

Show Way

No Such Thing as the Real World

Between Madison and Palmetto

The World Belonged to Us

Coming on Home Soon

Niña morena sueña

The Day You Begin

Our Gracie Aunt

El mundo era nuestro

El año en que aprendimos a volar

Um outro Brooklyn

Proteggimi

Sweet, Sweet Memory

Un autre Brooklyn

Seit du gegangen bist

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