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Another Brooklyn A Novel Jacqueline Woodson Books

Powerful story. Exquisite prose. This short book by Jacqueline Woodson will grab you with the first sentence (For a long time, my mother wasn't dead yet.), squeeze your heart tight and not let go. If I could give it 10 stars I would.

This is the story of August, a black girl who has moved from SweetGrove,
Tennessee to the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn with her father and little brother in the early '70s. This is the story of August and her three best friends. This is the story of how those girls grow up on the streets, living on the edge of poverty and either make it--or not--in the world. This is the story of a dangerous place, but one also filled with hope and courage. This is a story of grief. This is a story of love.

Read it.


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Another Brooklyn A Novel Jacqueline Woodson Books Reviews

I was caught off guard by the diction of the author. The use of italicized spoken word. I was caught off guard by her style. Her writing style. Her voice. But it drew me in and before I knew it the book was over. And what a good book it was. It made me smile, made me sad, made me girlish, and at times it made my womanhood flutter as memories crossed my own mind. It often frightened me as well and shamed me more than once. I most certainly recommend, but you should be careful not expect the ordinary. Think Toni Morrison and Ms. Angelou. You’ll enjoy.
This story of African-American girl August as she and 3 friends grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's is very deserving of all the praise being heaped upon it. The quick-cutting, stream-of-consciousness writing style can take a short while to adjust to, but once you do, the achingly beautiful, almost poetic nature of the prose makes it hard not to be carried along in thrall. One really feels transported to a different time and place, and comes away with a better understanding of what the American experience was for a different group of people than oneself, while at the same time recognizing the common joys and terrors of growing up that are universal to us all. The themes of grief and the impermanence of friendship that flow throughout are handled beautifully and will have one reflecting back on one's own childhood friends. This is a short but beautiful novel that I will cherish the memory of for a long time.
Running 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.

But 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.

My Thoughts In the narrative voice of a young woman named August, we follow her journey back to Sweet Grove, Tennessee, and forward to Brooklyn in the 1970s.

Memories and moments that seem to come in flashbacks are snippets out of time, revealing nostalgia and loss. A death, a missing mother, friendships that seem forever but then are not…all of it is seen from the character’s adult perspective.

Sometimes flashes come that signal fantasy, not reality. And then reality slams into her with all of its dangerous brutality.

Dead bodies are discovered nearby; drug addicts hide in the hallways; and children disappear when white women come for them.

Another Brooklyn A Novel is a panoramic view of a time, of dreams, and of how reality can turn grim…or hopeful. It snaps a portrait of growing up Girl in times that were a-changing. 4 stars.
This book is probably one to re-read soon. I just browsed its early pages to find a name I had forgotten, and there at the beginning lies part of the ending! Woodson moves back and forth in time in this story, so hints at the beginning don't come to fruition until the end. You're just entering the story, relaxing into something new, and those events fade. This story is told by August, a young black girl who, with her younger brother, were taken back to Brooklyn by her father, the Brooklyn that he knows. Home had been their SweetGrove land near a river in Tennessee. And August's mother isn't coming. It's a story that's wrapped in sorrow through missing their mother and home, August and her three friends growing up Girl in this part of Brooklyn, girls to recognize as such an important part of our own growing up, but that her mother had told her not to trust. It's also a story that threads other cultures' ways of death and dying and memory. There are hints of life there, life not everyone wants to know, but also survival, and one wonders why certain ones do survive, and another does not. For adults and older teens.
A favorite quote "Everywhere we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn."
I have not been this excited about an author since I first discovered Irvine Welsh. She writes like Charles Bukowski would have if he had never drank, gotten a PhD and was a strong, black woman. In an unprecedented move I bought another JW piece after reading the first page of this novel. It's about time I have a sister in my queue of authors for whom I must read everything they've written. My biggest fear in life besides losing my children is that I will die before I get a chance to finish all my stories.
Powerful story. Exquisite prose. This short book by Jacqueline Woodson will grab you with the first sentence (For a long time, my mother wasn't dead yet.), squeeze your heart tight and not let go. If I could give it 10 stars I would.

This is the story of August, a black girl who has moved from SweetGrove,
Tennessee to the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn with her father and little brother in the early '70s. This is the story of August and her three best friends. This is the story of how those girls grow up on the streets, living on the edge of poverty and either make it--or not--in the world. This is the story of a dangerous place, but one also filled with hope and courage. This is a story of grief. This is a story of love.

Read it.