- New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, african american, historical, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, coming of age
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Woodson
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, ONEWorld Publications, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781410494603
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