![]() ![]() ![]() The many layers of “Another Brooklyn” have the poetic and vivid strength of “Brown Girl Dreaming.” The effects of the Vietnam War on black families, absent mothers, predatory men, religion as escape, white flight and gentrification, the epidemics of drug abuse and poverty, and the search for belonging all make their way into the novel without overcrowding. August turns the trauma of losing her mother and uncle into a career of studying various cultures’ rituals of death. The girls all try to figure out who they are through their mothers: “We came by way of our mothers’ memories.” August holds on to memories of her mother yet her mother breaks under the pressure of grief and tries to relive memories of her own beloved brother, killed during the Vietnam War. ![]()
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