Another Brooklyn / Woodson, Jacqueline

When August runs into a long-ago friend, the surprise launches her memories back to her adolescence in 1970s Brooklyn. August and her best friends Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi share secrets and hopes for the future in their changing and sometimes dangerous neighborhood.

Torn between the fantasies of her youth and the realities of a life marked by violence and abandonment, August reunites with a beloved old friend who challenges her to reconcile her past and come to terms with the difficulties that forced her to grow up too quickly.