Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson is a 2016 Fiction & Literature book written by TED speaker Jacqueline Woodson, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "What reading slowly taught me about writing" (2019), 3.2M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 3 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 9th of 10 books by Jacqueline Woodson on Books Worth Reading (1994–2018), by publication year.
- Edition: Todavia, 2016 · 192 pages
The paired TED talk
What reading slowly taught me about writing (2019), the TED talk by Jacqueline Woodson.
From the publisher
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where mothers disappeared, where fathers found religion, and where madness was a mere sunset away. Woodson heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood -- when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up. --
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