Another Brooklyn : a novel / Jacqueline Woodson.
By: Woodson, Jacqueline [author.]
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TextPublisher: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]Edition: First edition.Description: 175 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062359988; 9781786070845.Subject(s): African American women -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 Awards: National Book Awards (USA) : Fiction Longlist 2016.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."-- From book jacket.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 813.54 W868 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003864360 |
"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."-- From book jacket.
National Book Awards (USA) : Fiction Longlist 2016.
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