Online
Book Banter
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us for a book group discussion of this month’s title, Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 6:30PM on Tuesday, November 9 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
Another Brooklyn is available at the St. Andrews pick-up window.
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. -- from book jacket.