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Another Brooklyn
By Jacqueline Woodson
192 pages;
Amistad
In a jar on the counter of Poncho's store there were pickled pig's feet that he'd scoop out into brown paper. When you said,
I want to choose my own, Poncho said,
No choosing! I choose! his old-man eyes moving over your body. And if you were hungry enough, you let him.
—from 2014 National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's latest novel, Another Brooklyn
Published 08/12/2016