Another Brooklyn : a novel

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Label

Another Brooklyn : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Jacqueline Woodson

Creator

• Woodson, Jacqueline

Subject

• African American women -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Female friendship -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where mothers disappeared, where fathers found religion, and where madness was a mere sunset away. Woodson heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood -- when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction