{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-9780062359995","title":"Another Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/em\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Louise Meriwether's \u003cem\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/em\u003e and Dorothy Allison's \u003cem\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson's \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood--the promise and peril of growing up--and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoodson, Jacqueline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling novel \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e (Harper\/Amistad), which was a 2016 National Book Award Finalist and Woodson's first adult novel in twenty years. In 2015, Woodson was named Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehttp: \/\/www.jacquelinewoodson.com\/\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593253261586,"sku":"9780062359995","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f399bef-b530-4100-9db3-d4fc03cd14dd.jpg?v=1732113914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/another-brooklyn-9780062359995","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}