{"product_id":"9780062359988","title":"Another Brooklyn : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jacqueline Woodson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Louise Meriwether’s \u003cem\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/em\u003e and Dorothy Allison’s \u003cem\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Woodson’s unsparing story of a girl becoming a woman recalls some of the genre’s all-time greats: \u003ci\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and especially, with its darkly poetic language, \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e“An engrossing novel about friendship, race, the magic of place and the relentlessness of change.”\u003cbr\u003e“Woodson manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is another name for poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e“Woodson does for young black girls what short story master Alice Munroe does for poor rural ones: She imbues their everyday lives with significance.”\u003cbr\u003e“In Jacqueline Woodson’s soaring choral poem of a novel…four young friends…navigate the perils of adolescence, mean streets, and haunted memory in 1970s Brooklyn, all while dreaming of escape.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e joins the tradition of studying female friendships and the families we create when our own isn’t enough, like that of Toni Morrison’s \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, Tayari Jones’ \u003ci\u003eSilver Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZami: A New Spelling of My Name\u003c\/i\u003e by Audre Lorde. Woodson uses her expertise at portraying the lives of children to explore the power of memory, death and friendship.\u003cbr\u003e“…it is the personal encounters that form the gorgeous center of this intense, moving novel...Structured as short vignettes, each reading more like prose poetry than traditional narrative, the novel unfolds as memory does, in burning flashes, thick with detail...”\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn,\u003c\/i\u003e Jacqueline Woodson has delivered a love letter to loss, girlhood, and home. It is a lyrical, haunting exploration of family, memory, and other ties that bind us to one another and the world.”\u003cbr\u003e“Woodson writes lyrically about what it means to be a girl in America, and what it means to be black in America. Each sentence is taut with potential energy, but the story never bursts into tragic flames; it stays strong and subtle throughout.”\u003cbr\u003e“Gorgeously written and moving, Another Brooklyn is an examination of the complexities of youth and adolescence, loss, friendship, family, race, and religion.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062359988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41094783369422,"sku":"9780062359988","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062359988.jpg?v=1649218698","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062359988","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}