Hi everyone, our next book club title is

 

Another Brooklyn, written by Jacqueline Woodson.

Here’s a description of the book:

Longlisted for the National Book Award

 

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

 

Running 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.

 

But 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.

 

Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn 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.

 

I’m hoping we can connect through the blog and share our impressions of the book!

 

And on a logistics note, the library will be closed until at least April 13.

 

So, what I’m going to do is finish reading Another Brooklyn and then have a book talk ready for Friday, April 10. I’m not sure at the present time if I’ll be doing the talk through Skype and sending the live video feed to the blog or if I’ll need to use YouTube and prerecord the talk – but I will figure that our shortly and let you all know!

 

If anyone wishes to discuss the last book club book, Talking With Strangers, or any other or book, audiobook or video they are currently enjoying – please feel free to share by commenting on this blog!

 

And if anyone would like to listen to the Another Brooklyn audiobook, I see it is currently (2/24/2020 at 12:02 p.m.) available in the Digital Catalog (Libby/OverDrive apps). Check it out!

Happy reading everyone!

Linda

 

P.S. If you haven’t used the Digital Catalog and need assistance in downloading the app and/or checking out materials, please let me know – just send an email to me at REIMERL@STLS.ORG