Another Brooklyn
Ratings20
Average rating3.9
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Ratings20
Average rating3.9
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2016 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2016 FROM THE WINNER OF THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD 2018 They used to be inseparable. They used to be young, brave and brilliant – amazingly beautiful and terrifyingly alone. August, Sylvia, Angela and Gigi shared everything: songs, secrets, fears and dreams. But 1970s Brooklyn was also a dangerous place, where grown men reached for innocent girls, where mothers disappeared and futures vanished at the turn of a street corner. Another Brooklyn is a heartbreaking and exquisitely written novel about a fleeting friendship that united four young lives, from one of our most gifted novelists.
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Recommend audiobook so you can really hear the beauty in Woodson's writing. Such elegance and beauty on such emotional and occasionally traumatic topics. Teen girlhood so authentically rendered.
4.5 stars. Woodson has just an incredible lyricism, even with her prose. I didn't love this as much as Brown Girl Dreaming, but it is excellent.
This novel just wasn't for me as a reader who needs a plot to follow, or at least a character narrative that progresses from a beginning to end. While there were passages that were beautifully written, I felt like the time I spent reading wasn't satisfying. It might have worked better as a collection of poems for a reader to dip into, rather than expecting a story and not finding it.
