Another Brooklyn A Novel - Jacqueline Woodson torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Adult Fiction African American Coming of Age Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction New York Young Adult

Written by Jacqueline Woodson
Read by Robin Miles
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Running into a long-ago friend sets memories 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.

Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 08-09-16