She had three friends: Gigi, Sylvia, and Angela, “sharing the weight of growing up ‘girl’ in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves, saying, ‘Here, help me carry this.’ ” It was the joy and beauty of their friendship that made this book “that good.” When she became a teenager, she began to meet those she and her brother had seen outside their window. Her father (and brother) found stability and kindness in the mosque. Her father always took care of the two of them and she was always close to her brother. Confronting the fact of her mother’s death was a life-long issue for her. August assures her brother their mother will arrive in a few days. During their early years they spent their time looking at Brooklyn of the 1970s through the window while their father was away at work. The narrator August tells the story of her early childhood in Tennessee and being taken with her younger brother to Brooklyn by their father. This summer I asked Mariflo if Another Brooklyn is as good as it sounds and she said “it is that good.” And, oh boy, she is right.
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