Another Brooklyn

'Beautifully lyrical...a collage of experiences and reflections that intersect geographically, temporally and sexually...Woodson evokes a New York of the 70s seen through the prism of young black females who are least likely to be portrayed in literature or any other art form, at the centre of it.' * <i>Observer</i> * '[A] rich, sensitive novel.' * <i>Big Issue</i> * 'A beautiful coming-of-age novel, heartfelt and true.' -- Erica Wagner * <i>New Statesman</i> * 'Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. I loved this book. * Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder * 'An impressionistic narrative, told in prose that's spare but always with an underlying poetry.' * <i>Sunday Herald</i> * 'It is the personal encounters that form the gorgeous center of this intense, moving novel.' * New York Times Book Review * 'Fine-cadenced prose.' * Wall Street Journal * 'Woodson manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. Another Brooklyn is another name for poetry.' * Washington Post * 'The novel reads like a series of prose poems.' * Los Angeles Times * 'This book about what it's like to be a girl in America should be required reading.' * Huffington Post * 'This gorgeous novel is a poem. It is a love letter to black girlhood.' * Roxanne Gay, author of Bad Feminist * 'Grief and friendship are the hallmarks of this story that leap from the pages in a musical prose that is sparse, exacting, and breathtaking. A remarkable writer, Woodson illustrates the damning invisibility and unrelenting objectification of girls in this tender tale.' * Lauren Francis-Sharma * 'My expectations for this book were high, and still I found myself astounded. Another Brooklyn packs so much work into such a beautiful, poignant narrative. Entirely accessible, it elevates voices too often unheard. This is essential reading.' * Bookreporter.com * 'In Jacqueline Woodson's soaring choral poem of a novel...four young friends...navigate the perils of adolescence, mean streets and haunted memory in 1970s Brooklyn, all while dreaming of escape.' * Vanity Fair * '[E]ntwined coming-of-age narratives - lost mothers, wounded war vets, nodding junkies, menacing streetscapes - are starkly realistic, yet brim with moments of pure poetry.' * Elle * 'Jacqueline Woodson is a gorgeous writer...lyrical prose, really, really beautiful.' * Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers * 'Another Brooklyn is another kind of book, another kind of beautiful, lyrical, hallucinatory, heartbreaking and powerful novel...This is an incredible and memorable book.' * Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light * 'Jacqueline Woodson's spare, emphatic novel about young women growing up in 1970s Bushwick brings some of our deepest silences-about danger, loss, and black girls' coming of age-into powerful lyric speech. Another Brooklyn is heartbreaking and restorative, a gorgeous and generous paean to all we must leave behind on the path to becoming ourselves.' * Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars and Ordinary Light * 'In this elegant and moving novel, Jacqueline Woodson explores the beauty and burden of growing up girl in 1970's Brooklyn through the lens of one unforgettable narrator. The guarded hopes and whispered fears that August and her girlfriends share left me thinking about the limits and rewards of friendship well after the novel's end. Full of moments of grief, grace, and wonder, Another Brooklyn proves that Jacqueline Woodson is a master storyteller.' * Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a finalist for the National Book Award * 'Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn is a wonder. With a poet's soul and a poet's eye for image and ear for lyrical language, Woodson delivers a moving meditation on girlhood, love, loss, hurt, friendship, family, faith, longing, and desire. This novel is a love letter to

Jacqueline Woodson is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children, including the New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which won the 2014 National Book Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, an NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, and in 2018 she received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.