Jacqueline Woodson Discusses Another Brooklyn
Join us for a reading, talk, and Q&A with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson on her 2016 novel Another Brooklyn. Drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood—when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up. 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.
We invite you to read Another Brooklyn with Brownsville ahead of the event. Check out our virtual discussion questions and book-inspired playlist!
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Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim and a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. Other awards include the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Her most recent novel, Remember Us, is set in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
Join us for a reading, talk, and Q&A with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson on her 2016 novel Another Brooklyn. Drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood—when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up. 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.
We invite you to read Another Brooklyn with Brownsville ahead of the event. Check out our virtual discussion questions and book-inspired playlist!
PARTICIPANT
Jacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim and a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. Other awards include the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award, and she was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and the NAACP Image Award. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Her most recent novel, Remember Us, is set in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
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