Another Brooklyn

August runs into a friend she has not seen in years, and the meeting pulls her back to 1970s Brooklyn, a time and place she thought she had lost. The neighborhood is where she grew up, and where friendship counted above all else.

As girls, August, Sylvia, Angela and Gigi talk through their secrets while walking the streets near home. They believe they are beautiful and gifted, and that the future is theirs to claim.

There is a second Brooklyn under that confidence, and it is dangerous. Men grab at young girls in dark hallways. Mothers vanish. Fathers turn to religion. Madness can arrive between one sunset and the next.

The novel is told as memory, with an adult August looking back at the years when childhood gives way to adulthood. It is a coming-of-age story with a sorrowful tone, focused on how innocence meets the real risks of growing up. Expect a reflective read built on recollection and the bond among four girls.