{"product_id":"another-brooklyn-2","title":"Another Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBestseller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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, a found family 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 with lyrical, poetic prose 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":45496969527472,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/71Pk66WaCRL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785552200","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/another-brooklyn-2","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}