Another Brooklyn: A Novel [Paperback]

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award

New York TimesBestseller

ASeattleTimespick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017

ABustleFall Roundup pick for 2017

The acclaimedNew York Timesbestselling and National Book Award–winning author ofBrown Girl Dreamingdelivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

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.

Like Louise Meriwether’sDaddy Was a Number Runnerand Dorothy Allison’sBastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’sAnother Brooklynheartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood—the promise and peril of growing up—and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.

For 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.

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 ló¾