A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017
The 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. 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.
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.
Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy
Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another
Brooklyn 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.
