Another Brooklyn

Wow, how have I not read Jacqueline Woodson before? She is an incredible talented writer and this short work of fiction packs a punch couched in her poetic language.

This is more than a coming of age novel, although every line about the three girls she wishes to be like and who eventually become close friends resonates. The extreme pleasures and tortures of leaving childhood and entering womanhood are so beautifully drawn.

Beyond that is also the story of a young girl, who is uprooted from her Tennessee home, her family fractured, and how she learns to accept her new reality. A reality which she truly wishes to accept and not accept with the fear that accepting things as they are will wash away her memories.