Another Brooklyn : a novel / Jacqueline Woodson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodson, Jacqueline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

175 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

"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."-- From book jacket.

Notes:

National Book Awards (USA) : Fiction Longlist 2016.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2017

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780062359988

0062359983

9781786070845

1786070847

OCLC:

954479641

Online:

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