Another Brooklyn: A Novel

For August, Running Into A Long-ago Friend Sets In Motion Resonant Memories And Transports Her To A Time And A 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 That Belonged To Them. But Beneath The Hopeful Promise There Was Another Brooklyn, A Dangerous Place Where Grown Men Reached For Innocent Girls In Dark Hallways, Where Mothers Disappeared, Where Fathers Found Religion, And Where Madness Was A Mere Sunset Away. Woodson Heartbreakingly Illuminates The Formative Period When A Child Meets Adulthood -- When Precious Innocence Meets The All-too-real Perils Of Growing Up. -- Jacqueline Woodson.