Reviews tagging 'Death'

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

12 reviews

ellsbellsreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Just beautiful. So so so beautiful. It could be read more quickly but I found it was worth lingering on passages in the same way you do with poetry. And this book has been compared to poetry before, for which I can understand why. Wilson captures the experience of living in a way I have never seen done before. I am blown away as a result.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Drug abuse

suzyreadsbooks's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

I loved Red at the Bone and was looking forward to reading more by Woodson.
In Another Brooklyn, she explores the possibility and precariousness of Black girlhood for August and her friends in 1970s New York. This had very sparse, lyrical writing with interesting use of repetition. 
But, it sped along too quickly for me. I kept wishing it was slightly more fleshed out, because RATB was so masterful at balancing brevity with deep character studies. This felt like an outline of the pain without the full picture of these characters’ lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and War