The story of Sylvia, August, Gigi, and Angela – the fiction. An Amazon Best Book of August 2016: Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years is nothing short of remarkable.Her protagonist, August, is one of four girls coming of age in 1970s Brooklyn who become always and all ways friends until one by one their lives take different turns. Hence, the very minimalist and intentional language and white space – the poetry.
I also wanted to see if I could combine many genres in one book. When I saw how the Bushwick of my childhood was becoming a hipster neighborhood that was often referred to as ‘newly discovered’, I knew I wanted to put the Bushwick of the 70s and 80s on the page – so that it wouldn’t be forgotten. The Bushwick section of Brooklyn and in the fictional town of Sweet Grove, Tennessee. Another Brooklyn is a novel about love and memory.
An anthropologist looks back on her past to understand the death of her mother and the loss of her closest friends.
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