“Every paragraph is set off by blank lines, which emphasizes the poetic style of Woodson’s prose. This novel of memory is memorable, moving and absolutely remarkable. This is an outstanding audiobook, though, and I’d encourage reading it that way too. Recommended? Emphatically, yes! I intend to buy a print copy of Another Brooklyn to read again.I wanted to stay immersed in August’s memories. What didn’t I like? My only issue with Another Brooklyn is that I’d really have liked it to be longer.Woodson’s rhythmic, evocative language conveys the imprecision and subjectivity of memory without sugarcoating or losing track of emotional truths. Another Brooklyn is not a pretty story, but the writing is gorgeous. Woodson gave her wonderful material to work with, though. It’s the third time this year I’ve listened to her narrate a book by a Black woman author but the first time with a novel, and I think this is the best work I’ve heard from her yet.
A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. 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.īut 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. 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. The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. National Book Award FinalistNew York Times Bestseller Genres: Fiction, African American, General
Published by HarperCollins on August 9th 2016