![]() ![]() Together they attempt to hang onto their dreams, Angela to become a dancer, Gigi an actress, and Sylvia a lawyer and singer. ![]() As the girls get older and their bodies become more womanly, the Brooklyn streets gradually become more dangerous for them to travel alone. Woodson describes the mix of love and envy in their relationship, and how all four deal with their own family’s secrets and suppressed memories. August sees “everything: when looking at them and the trio quickly becomes a quartet. Told in flashback by the adult August, an anthropologist studying the death practices of various cultures who has returned to Brooklyn after the passing of her own father, Another Brooklyn is an absorbing, lyrical, beautifully written novel, which quietly draws the reader into its story of four friends “sharing the weight of growing up girl in Brooklyn” in the 1970s.Īugust and her father and brother move to Brooklyn from Sweet Grove, Tennessee, and she immediately becomes fascinated watching Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi from her window. ![]()
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