{"product_id":"another-brooklynbooks","title":"Another Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSeattleTimes\u003c\/em\u003e pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e Fall Roundup pick for 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning into a long-ago friend sets memory 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Louise Meriwether’s \u003cem\u003eDaddy Was a Number Runner\u003c\/em\u003e and Dorothy Allison’s \u003cem\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacqueline Woodson’s \u003cem\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodson, Jacqueline","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Adult Fiction","offer_id":34933746794663,"sku":"","price":11.1,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cb9d85e5-5eee-45f7-b269-3d08dac56eca.jpg?v=1593294925","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/another-brooklynbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}