{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-jacqueline-woodson-paperback","title":"Another Brooklyn -- Jacqueline Woodson, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/i\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jacqueline Woodson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\" H x 5.3\" L x 0.5\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780062359995\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721286451499,"sku":"9780062359995","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780062359995_17b3dc1b-7b9c-4adb-9f74-9d886c16b669.jpg?v=1774774375","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/another-brooklyn-jacqueline-woodson-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}