Another Brooklyn : a novel / Jacqueline Woodson.
"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 pl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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. Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood -- when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 175 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Awards: | National Book Awards (USA) : Fiction Longlist 2016. |
| ISBN: | 9780062359988 0062359983 9781786070845 1786070847 |