Another Brooklyn |
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Author:
| Woodson, Jacqueline |
ISBN: | 978-1-4104-9460-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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A New York Times BestsellerA #1 Indie Next PickA National Book Award-winning AuthorRunning 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...
More DescriptionA New York Times BestsellerA #1 Indie Next PickA National Book Award-winning AuthorRunning 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.