Another Brooklyn

**A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award** * **New York Times** ***Bestseller* * **A *SeattleTimes* pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017** **A *Bustle* Fall Roundup pick for 2017** The acclaimed *New York Times* bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of *Brown Girl Dreaming* delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running 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. But 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. Like Louise Meriwether’s *Daddy Was a Number Runner* and Dorothy Allison’s *Bastard Out of Carolina* , Jacqueline Woodson’s *Another Brooklyn* 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.