![]() ![]() It’s been 20 years, and August has had a lot of time to reflect on how a motherless youth impacted her. This journey back to the place of her adolescence and seeing an old friend brings on a wave of emotions and nostalgia for August. August lets go of their former life in the South and, in the process, leaves her mother behind – or so she thinks.Īt the start of Woodson’s novel, adult August has returned to Brooklyn to bury her father. This dreamlike novel follows the protagonist, August, as she remembers her childhood when she and her younger brother moved to Brooklyn with their father. Jacqueline Woodson, winner of the National Book Award, took her own youth, which she chronicled in her memoir-in-verse, “ Brown Girl Dreaming” (2016), and used it to write the lyrical novel, “ Another Brooklyn” (2017). ![]()
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