Another Brooklyn
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780062359988
Subjects: Fiction; African American women; Female friendship
Description: 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. --