Another Brooklyn - A Novel

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, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Woodson
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780062359995
• ISBN: 978-0-06-235999-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Family Life / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN