Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Written in verse, Jacqueline Woodson’s novel, Brown Girl Dreaming, is a work of auto-fiction detailing the author’s life and childhood growing up in racially segregated South Carolina. The narrative tracks Woodson’s early experiences with activism and the decision she made as a child to become a writer. Readers will be drawn in by Woodson’s lyrical use of language as well as a youth’s perspective about important moments such as the emergence of historical figures like activist and scholar Angela Davis.
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