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Another Brooklyn : a novel

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  • Running Time: 02:45 hrs
    Narrator: Robin Miles
    Publisher:
    Harper Audio, 2016
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Contributor: Miles, Robin
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2016
    Summary:

    For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where mothers disappeared, where fathers found religion, and where madness was a mere sunset away. Woodson heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood -- when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up.

    Original Publisher: [New York], Harper Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1504733576, 9781504733571
    Collection(s)/Series: Black Authors