{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-paperback","title":"Another Brooklyn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Woodson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/em\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 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\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories, and transports her to a time and place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Woodson's \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn \u003c\/em\u003eheartbreakingly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e is an enthralling work of literature from one of our most gifted novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e--Bustle\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories, and transports her to a time and place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Woodson's \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn \u003c\/em\u003eheartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood--when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up. 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