Another Brooklyn: A Novel
Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson is an unabridged edition published by HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio on August 9, 2016. This novel marks Woodson’s return to adult fiction after twenty years, exploring themes of friendship and the complexities of growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. The narrative follows August as she reconnects with a long-lost friend, prompting a journey through her memories of a vibrant yet challenging childhood, where the bonds of friendship were both a source of strength and vulnerability.
Readers will find a poignant exploration of family life and the duality of urban existence, as Woodson delves into the contrasting experiences of beauty and danger in a neighborhood that shaped August and her friends. The story captures the essence of their formative years, highlighting the fleeting nature of youth and the impact of their environment on their identities. Through vivid storytelling, Another Brooklyn presents a rich tapestry of life in the United States, particularly within the Black and African American community, making it a significant addition to contemporary literature.
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Longlisted for the 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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