Another Brooklyn: A Moving Coming-of-Age Novel of Friendship and Memories Set in the Heart of Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn: A Moving Coming-of-Age Novel of Friendship and Memories Set in the Heart of Brooklyn

<p><strong>A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award</strong></p><p><em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><strong> Bestseller</strong> </p><p><strong>A <em>SeattleTimes</em> pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017</strong></p><p><strong>A <em>Bustle</em> Fall Roundup pick for 2017</strong></p><p>The acclaimed <em>New York Times</em> bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of <em>Brown Girl Dreaming</em> delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>Like Louise Meriwether’s <em>Daddy Was a Number Runner</em> and Dorothy Allison’s <em>Bastard Out of Carolina</em>, Jacqueline Woodson’s <em>Another Brooklyn</em> 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.</p><p> </p>