Another Brooklyn a novel
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 wh...
Main Author: | Woodson, Jacqueline (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York, NY :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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Edition: | First edition. |
Subjects: |
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. 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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Physical Description: |
175 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9780062359988 (hardcover) 0062359983 (hardcover) |
Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |