The story starts with August, an adult anthropologist, returning to New York to bury her father. It was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016.
NPR wrote that the book was "full of dreams and danger". The book was written as an adult book, unlike many of the author's previous books and titles.
OL20052671W Page_number_confidence 91.41 Pages 258 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210811200820 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 224 Scandate 20210810040119 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781410494603 Tts_version 4.Another Brooklyn is a 2016 novel by Jacqueline Woodson. With dreams as varied as their conflicts, the young women confront dangers lurking on the streets, discover first love, and pave paths that will eventually lead them in different directionsĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:37:57 Boxid IA40205301 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier There's dancer Angela, who keeps her home life a carefully guarded secret beautiful Gigi, who loses her innocence too young and Sylvia, "diamonded over, brilliant," whose strict father wants her to study law. August's memories of her Brooklyn companions-a tightly knit group of neighborhood girls-are memorable and profound. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's religious conversion, and her mother's haunting absence. When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories.
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