Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
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Another Brooklyn
A Novel

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/09/2016

Synopsis

Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew 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.

About Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. She is also the author of New York Times bestselling novel Another Brooklyn (Harper/Amistad), which was a 2016 National Book Award Finalist and Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years. In 2015, Woodson was named Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on June 05, 2016

This gorgeous novel is a poem. It is a love letter to black girlhood.......more

Goodreads review by Will on June 19, 2024

Each week, sister Sonja said, Start at the beginning, her dark fingers bending around a small black notebook, pen poised. Many moments passed before I opened my mouth to speak. Each week, I began with the words I was waiting for my mother…A forest grows in Bushwick. At 35, August, a worldly anth......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 29, 2016

I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything. 2 1/2 stars. I liked parts of this, but after all the gushing praise the book has received, I was just kind of... underwhelmed. Another Brooklyn is......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on July 10, 2016

4.5 stars . I read Jacqueline Woodson's profile and want to tell her what her fifth grade teacher told her about a story she wrote, "This is really good" , but it's not enough. I want to tell her how gorgeous her writing is, how I saw Brooklyn in the 1970's - that place and time through her writing......more

Goodreads review by emma on September 24, 2021

Man, I love a short book. Anyone can write a 300 page (or god forbid, longer) book and make me care about characters. Okay, no they can't. I rarely do. But still, that's all the time in the world. That's no excuse. But making me care about them in UNDER 200??? Now that's a feat. And okay, making me car......more

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