Another Brooklyn (Woodson) - Book Reviews

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With Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson has delivered a love letter to loss, girlhood, and home. It is a lyrical, haunting exploration of family, memory, and other ties that bind us to one another and the world.
Boston Globe


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


An engrossing novel about friendship, race, the magic of place and the relentlessness of change.
People Magazine


(Stared review.) With dreams as varied as their conflicts, the young women confront dangers lurking on the streets [and] discover first love.... Woodson draws on all the senses to trace the milestones in a woman’s life and how her early experiences shape her identity.
Publishers Weekly


(Stared review.) Woodson seamlessly transitions her characters from childhood to adulthood as August looks back on the events that led her to become silent in her teen years, eventually fleeing Brooklyn and the memories of her former friends. Verdict: An evocative portrayal of friendship, love, and loss that will resonate with anyone creating their own identity.  —Stephanie Sendaula
Library Journal


(Stared review.) The novel’s richness defies its slim page count. In her poet’s prose, Woodson not only shows us backward-glancing August attempting to stave off growing up and the pains that betray youth, she also wonders how we dream of a life parallel to the one we’re living
Booklist


(Stared review.) Here is an exploration of family—both the ones we are born into and the ones we make for ourselves—and all the many ways we try to care for these people we love so much, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing. A stunning achievement from one of the quietly great masters of our time.
Kirkus Reviews