another brooklyn a novel by jacqueline woodson

National Book Award FinalistNEW YORK TIMES Bestseller 29th Lambda Literary Awards FinalistNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary WorkAn NPR Best Book of 2016Buzzfeed's pick for Best Fiction of 2016The 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.

Another Brooklyn is a breathtaking account of growing up female and black in a time of conflicting pressures and crushing assumptions, and in doing so creating a lifetime of memories. The girls’ lives move to the beat of disco rhythms, the chant of Double Dutch, and later the pleas of their boyfriends to do just this one thing…Their neighborhood is both lifeline and trap, as so many places are, and it’s hard to say for sure why some break the tether and others become what they once scorned. Woodson is able to convey so much with so little-her words and sentences are beautifully crafted to fill you with emotion and understanding in a single line that feels effortless and light. Her protagonist, August, is one of four girls coming of age in 1970s Brooklyn who become “always and all ways” friends until one by one their lives take different turns.

An Amazon Best Book of August 2016: Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years is nothing short of remarkable.

Another brooklyn a novel by jacqueline woodson