![]() It is a tale of friendship, kinship, sexuality, place. It is the story of August and her friends Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela, the story of August and her father and brother. On its surface, Another Brooklyn is a coming-of-age story set in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a bittersweet ode to the narrator’s childhood. ![]() ![]() “This is memory,” she repeats toward the book’s end, as she describes returning to her birthplace of Tennessee for the first time. “This is memory,” she says later, when discussing the bond between her and her trio of childhood friends. “This is memory,” August, the book’s narrator, says in the opening paragraphs, as she reflects on her childhood and how it might have been different. ![]() “THIS IS MEMORY.” The phrase echoes through Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s National Book Award–longlisted prose poem of a novel (reprinted last May in paperback). ![]()
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