{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-1","title":"Another Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Louise Meriwether's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Dorothy Allison's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacqueline Woodson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45496969298096,"sku":null,"price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/91ojgwwNcdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785552054","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/another-brooklyn-1","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}