Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson, 175 pages

“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.” This was a sad but hopeful story.  It really spoke to me for some reason that I can’t quite explain.  I loved it, but I’m not sure I’ll want to reread it and I can’t quite explain that either.  I’d recommend this to anyone who likes realistic and historical fiction.