PositiveThe Los Angeles TimesThe many layers of Another Brooklyn have the poetic and vivid strength of Brown Girl Dreaming ... The novel reads like a series of prose poems, quick blocks of text separated by frequent spacing, which allows the reader to absorb the significance of each transition and have time to breathe before tackling August’s next memory ... Woodson uses her expertise at portraying the lives of children to explore the power of memory, death and friendship. Even when what was good turns sour, it can fuel the rest of our lives, in ways we never think to acknowledge.
