![]() ![]() The story is set in Brooklyn in the 60s-70s, August, the protagonist and narrator, arrives in New York from their farm in Tennessee with her younger brother and father. It is almost written in a poetry form – short stanza like paragraphs which, as I say are short and compact, but still manage to convey complex relationships and situations. When I did a quick bit of research on the author, it turns out that she has written over 30 children and young adults books, which this book is not. Another Brooklyn did not let me down at all. It seems that even though these books are small in stature, ( Anything is Possible, Gustav Sonata, The Refugees etc) they have all been beautiful in their compactness – not excessive in words, but huge in the impact of the words they have used. ![]() This year has been the year of the small book for me, and I am quite reveling in it. Never having heard anything about author Jacqueline Woodson, or her book Another Brooklyn, I chose it very un-librarianishly – by its size. ![]()
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