August, an anthropologist who studies how cultures bury their dead, returns to Brooklyn for her father's funeral and is pulled back into memories of the 1970s — of Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the three friends who were her whole world as they came of age together amid the borough's dangers and possibilities. Woodson's first novel for adults in twenty years is a spare, lyrical account of girlhood friendship, ambition, and loss.
Author: Jacqueline Woodson · Original publisher: Amistad (New York), 2016
