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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. Woodson 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
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Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Another Brooklyn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 1786072378
- ISBN13
- 9781786072375
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Family, Friendship, USA, Memories, Coming Of Age, New York, Young Adult Romance, Drugs, Dreams, First love, Development, Pipers, Brooklyn
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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. Woodson 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