Another Brooklyn follows four girls in the 1970s: Angela, Gigi, Sylvia, and August. August finds the other three after moving to Brooklyn with her father and brother, and watching them through her apartment window above. Incredibly to her, she is welcomed into the group when she finally approaches them, despite what August's mother had once warned her about, not being able to trust other women. The girls support each other through their coming of age, and accept that some of them have secrets that they aren't able to share with the group. But then again, maybe August's mother was right...The way Woodson handles dialogue makes the novel somewhat haunting. Instead of speech couched within quotation marks, Woodson uses italicized snippets, sometimes alone, sometimes sprinkled within her descriptive paragraphs, always making me hang on to the words, sensing there is much feeling within the dialogue.
I'd been wanting to read something by Jacqueline Woodson, and I found this short novel very satisfying.
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