Brooklyn, Tracy Brown
Brooklyn, Tracy Brown
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Brooklyn

Author: Tracy Brown

Narrator: Keyonni James

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t?

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became.

Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn’s determined to be the type of woman who makes her own rules. When her back’s up against the wall, she sacrifices her family, takes the burnt offering that remains, and runs away. In NYC, young Brooklyn charms her way into the inner circle of hustlers and stick-up kids, learning tricks along the way. She catches the eye of a major player in the drug game, Hassan, and they have a breathless love affair. Brooklyn becomes integrated into his operation, earning the trust of Hassan and his associates. But when she gets the keys to the kingdom, driven by unfettered ambition and a ruthless desire to survive, Brooklyn snatches the pot of gold, leaving bitter retribution promises behind her.

From DC to Maryland, Brooklyn burns bridges and breaks hearts. What she doesn't realize is that someone is prepared to end her reign of terror. As she faces her killer and her fate, Brooklyn’s stunned that justice comes from the least likely place.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Tracy Brown

Tracy Brown is the Essence bestselling author of Boss; White Lines, White Lines II: Sunny, White Lines III: All Falls Down, Aftermath, Snapped, Twisted, Criminal Minded, Black and Dime Piece. She passed away two days after turning in Brooklyn—her final, and arguably best, book. The African Americans on the Move Book Club bestowed their Urban Classic Honor Award on Tracy's White Lines series in celebration of her legacy and impact on the literary world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on December 19, 2021

[Edited 12/19/21] Assuming we have a reliable narrator, we can date this story by the newly-released movie she views - Singing in the Rain - so it’s 1952. A young Irish woman emigrates to Brooklyn. Back in Ireland, she has three brothers all working in England, as well as an older sister who will now......more

Goodreads review by emma on November 25, 2024

couldn't wait to read this armed with the knowledge i can picture a saoirse ronan performance as the protagonist. more books should have that distinction. possibly the scariest feeling on earth is when you love a book you almost didn't read. i love you and i hate you, butterfly effect. from page one,......more

Goodreads review by Will on November 08, 2023

Brooklyn is a wonderful character portrait and captures as well the struggle of an Irish immigrant to the US in the post war world. Eilis Lacy is a twenty-something in a small Irish town, frustrated at the sclerotic nature of her environment. Her life lies ahead of her in a single, entirely predicta......more

Goodreads review by Taufiq on March 01, 2025

In the 1950s, young Eilis left her small Irish town for Brooklyn, diving headfirst into an unpredictable new life. She was brimming with youthful hope until a letter from home suddenly made her loathe everything around her. The story itself isn’t complicated - it’s neatly divided into 4 chapters tha......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on February 12, 2017

Some books are worth sticking with. To call this book a slow starter would be to evoke a drastic understatement. After around a hundred or so pages, I was beginning to wonder if this book was actually going anywhere. There was a completer lack of plot, as the mundane life of an ordinary girl unf......more


Quotes

“Brown’s latest morality tale (posthumously published) is high drama and fast-paced, with a focus on family and survival at all costs…written in a confessional style that readers will relish.” - Booklist

"The entire experience with Brooklyn kept me absolutely riveted...This was a definite five-star read." - Chick Lit Central