![]() ![]() She becomes an anthropologist.īut within that structure Woodson indirectly addresses all the things we leave unsaid about adolescence. She attaches herself more passionately to her girlfriends, until she loses them. ![]() She acquires and loses an older boyfriend. She attaches herself to a group of girlfriends and grows into a teenager. Here’s an attempt: Over the course of Another Brooklyn, a young girl named August loses her mother and moves with her father and brother from Tennessee to pre-gentrification ’70s Brooklyn. Describing it means either translating Woodson’s elegant, poetic elisions into prose, or leaving gaping holes in the narration. Which is not to say the book is insubstantial - only that its power lies in what it leaves unsaid. ![]() Its prose is so delicate, its structure so gauzy, that it feels as if the whole thing will disappear if you look directly at it. It’s hard to figure out how to talk about Another Brooklyn, the latest novel from National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson. ![]()
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