{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-a-novel-isbn-9780062359995","title":"Another Brooklyn: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/i\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\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, a found family 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 \u003ci\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/i\u003e and Dorothy Allison’s \u003ci\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and with lyrical, poetic prose exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.\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 | \u003cp\u003e“Woodson’s unsparing story of a girl becoming a woman recalls some of the genre’s all-time greats: \u003ci\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and especially, with its darkly poetic language, \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street.\u003c\/i\u003e” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Begley, Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An engrossing novel about friendship, race, the magic of place and the relentlessness of change.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woodson manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is another name for poetry.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woodson does for young black girls what short story master Alice Munroe does for poor rural ones: She imbues their everyday lives with significance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In Jacqueline Woodson’s soaring choral poem of a novel…four young friends…navigate the perils of adolescence, mean streets, and haunted memory in 1970s Brooklyn, all while dreaming of escape.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e joins the tradition of studying female friendships and the families we create when our own isn’t enough, like that of Toni Morrison’s \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, Tayari Jones’ \u003ci\u003eSilver Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZami: A New Spelling of My Name\u003c\/i\u003e by Audre Lorde. Woodson uses her expertise at portraying the lives of children to explore the power of memory, death and friendship. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…it is the personal encounters that form the gorgeous center of this intense, moving novel...Structured as short vignettes, each reading more like prose poetry than traditional narrative, the novel unfolds as memory does, in burning flashes, thick with detail...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn,\u003c\/i\u003e Jacqueline Woodson has delivered a love letter to loss, girlhood, and home. It is a lyrical, haunting exploration of family, memory, and other ties that bind us to one another and the world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woodson writes lyrically about what it means to be a girl in America, and what it means to be black in America. Each sentence is taut with potential energy, but the story never bursts into tragic flames; it stays strong and subtle throughout.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gorgeously written and moving, Another Brooklyn is an examination of the complexities of youth and adolescence, loss, friendship, family, race, and religion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJarry Lee, Buzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[E]ntwined coming-of-age narratives-lost mothers, wounded war vets, nodding junkies, menacing streetscapes-are starkly realistic, yet brim with moments of pure poetry.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle Books Feature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…fine-cadenced prose…” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s richness defies its slim page count. In her poet’s prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life parallel to the one we’re living.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a love song to girlhood…” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“emotionally resonant work” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a gauzy, lyrical fever dream of a book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVox Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are nothrowaway sentences in \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e — each short, poetic line feels carefully loved and polished. The first half of this novel asks urgent questions; the second delivers uneasy, heartbreaking answers. At its core, this book is about fragility, how light shines in the broken places.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jacqueline Woodson is a gorgeous writer…lyrical prose, really, really beautiful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Straub, New York Times Bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘’…And Sister Jacqueline Woodson comes singing memory. Her words like summer lightning get caught in my throat and I draw her up from southern roots to a Brooklyn of a thousand names, where she and her three ‘sisters’ learn to navigate a new season. A new herstory. Everywhere I turn, my dear Sister Jacqueline, I hear your words, a wild sea pausing in the wind. And I sing…” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSister Sonia Sanchez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e is another kind of book, another kind of beautiful, a lyrical, hallucinatory, heartbreaking, and powerful novel. Every gorgeous page leads to another revelation, another poignant event or memory. This is an incredible and memorable book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a sort of fever dream, containing both the hard truths of life and the gentle beauty of memory. The story of a young girl trying to find herself in the midst of so many conflicting influences\u003cbr\u003eand desires swallowed me whole. Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. I loved this book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Patchett, New York Times Bestselling Author of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage and State of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this elegant and moving novel, Jacqueline Woodson explores the beauty and burden of growing up girl in 1970’s Brooklyn through the lens of one unforgettable narrator. The guarded hopes and whispered fears that August and her girlfriends share left me thinking about the limits and rewards of friendship well after the novel’s end. Full of moments of grief, grace, and wonder, \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e proves that Jacqueline Woodson is a master storyteller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a finalist for the National Book Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder. With a poet’s soul and a poet’s eye for image and ear for lyrical language, Woodson delivers a moving meditation on girlhood, love, loss, hurt, friendship, family, faith, longing, and desire. This novel is a love letter to a place, an era, and a group of young women that we’ve never seen depicted quite this way or this tenderly. Woodson has created an unforgettable, entrancing narrator in August. I’ll go anywhere she leads me.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jacqueline Woodson’s spare, emphatic novel about young women growing up in 1970s Bushwick brings some of our deepest silences-about danger, loss, and black girls’ coming of age-into powerful lyric speech. \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is heartbreaking and restorative, a gorgeous and generous paean to all we must leave behind on the path to becoming ourselves.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Life on Mars and Ordinary Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grief and friendship are the hallmarks of this story that leap from the pages in a musical prose that is sparse, exacting and breathtaking. A remarkable writer, Woodson illustrates the damning invisibility and unrelenting objectification of girls in this tender tale that wreaks of desperate hopefulness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauren Francis-Sharma, author of 'Til the Well Runs Dry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunning achievement from one of the quietly great masters of our time.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woodson…combines grit and beauty in a series of stunning vignettes, painting a vivid mural of what it was like to grow up African-American in Brooklyn during the 1970s…Woodson draws on all the senses to trace the milestones in a woman’s life and how her early experiences shaped her identity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, (Boxed and Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With spare yet poetic writing, this long-awaited adult novel by National Book Award winner Woodson (\u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e) is a series of vignettes narrated by August, shortly after her dad’s funeral and a chance encounter with an old friend.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Woodson’s background not only as a novelist but also as a poet, \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is told in spare, lyrical prose, with a surface simplicity that belies its underlying narrative strength and emotional heft. Often, in Woodson’s novel, what isn’t said is as essential as what is, and readers come away feeling as if they, in the process of reading the novel, are somehow partners in Woodson’s project of telling her poignant and devastating story about dreams deferred, destroyed, and—in rare cases—realized.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookBrowser Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888263917797,"sku":"NP9780062359995","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062359995.jpg?v=1730228667","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/another-brooklyn-a-novel-isbn-9780062359995","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}