Another Brooklyn: A Novel

"Jacqueline Woodson says Another Brooklyn came to her in a “kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.” And that is just how this slender novel unfolds. It’s the story of a girl named August who moves to Brooklyn from Tennessee after the death of her mother. Peering out the window of the apartment she now shares with her father and brother, August sees the three girls who will become her best friends, guiding her through this new world and into adolescence. Adult August narrates the book, and we know from the start that the friends have betrayed one another. But we only learn how, why and to what effect as August’s memories return to haunt her. Woodson perfectly captures the elusive feel of memory in prose that often reads like poetry."