A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9780062359988
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2016 pg. 83
Publishers Weekly 04/11/2016
Booklist 05/15/2016 pg. 19
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2016
Library Journal 06/15/2016 pg. 71
BookPage 08/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 08/12/2016
School Library Journal 11/01/2016 pg. 109
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 46
Library Journal 03/01/2016
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 187009 / Another Brooklyn
Reading Level: 5.4 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 3