Another Brooklyn Hardcover - 2016

From the rear cover

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. In prose exquisite and lyrical, sensuous and tender, Woodson breathes life into memories, portraying an indelible friendship that united young lives.

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• Booklist, 05/15/2016, Page 19
• BookPage, 08/01/2016, Page 0
• Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2016, Page 0
• Library Journal, 03/01/2016, Page 0
• Library Journal Prepub Alert, 03/01/2016, Page 83
• Publishers Weekly, 04/11/2016, Page 0
• School Library Journal, 12/01/2016, Page 46
• Shelf Awareness, 08/12/2016, Page 0