{"product_id":"another-brooklyn","title":"Another Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/i\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\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, 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\/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 \u003ci\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/i\u003e and Dorothy Allison's \u003ci\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson's \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942015860967,"sku":"9780062359995","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_49d750ad-de4c-45b7-b2db-29492ffe2c83.jpg?v=1775243708","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/another-brooklyn","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}