Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (audiobook)

genre: middle grade memoir

This beautiful novel in verse is about the early life of author Jacqueline Woodson, during a time when her heart is split between the rural South Carolina home of her mother's people and the New York City home where she lives.  We watch Jacqueline fall in love with words, with where they can take her and what they can do.  We see the Civil Rights movement through her young eyes, we see segregation and backs of busses, we see the lovingly knit Black communities where there is safety among those who look like you.  Her prose is absolutely perfect.  Stunning.  I was blown away by this portrait of a life as it unfolds and flowers.  Brown Girl Dreaming breathes life into a time and a place, but most especially, into the beauty that is a girl who finds the strength to love her dreams.

Also, the narration is fantastic.

1 comment:

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