A N O T H E R B R O O K L Y N

Another Brooklyn || Jacqueline Woodson || Book Review 4⭐️||

Poetic, raw, graceful.

August flashes back and forward between 1970 and the present, her young child/teen years spent in Brooklyn, after being moved from Tennessee with her brother and father. Her mother was supposed to follow them. August makes friends with Angela, Sylvia and Gigi, the four of them each struggling with their own problems, shielding each other from the murky world of drugs, predators and gangs, present in the dark corners of Brooklyn.

Woodson’s writing flows as poetry, with such eloquence that you find yourself swept up in it. The innocence of children, contrasting to the stark realities of being a black female growing up. After all the challenges have grown to pass, just the memory remaining, of the girl she once was. I enjoyed the change of pace from the other books I have read, it was effortless and still managed to deliver a sucker punch of emotion.

I’m intrigued to read ‘Red at the Bone’ and more of Woodson’s writing.