We came back! This month, we read Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn and loved it. The book has been long-listed for a National Book Award in fiction and it’s well deserved. Join us for a conversation about the book’s beautiful descriptions of black girlhood and the joys of “sneaky writing.”

Have you read Another Brooklyn? Tweet us what you thought of the book at @blackchicklit.

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National Book Award Winners in Fiction

Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘Another Brooklyn’ is a gauzy, lyrical fever dream of a book (best headline ever.)

Books mentioned in this episode:

We the Animals, by Justin Torres

Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

The Game Between Love and Death, by Martha Brockenbrough

Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King

An Untamed State, by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay