Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson I love it when words flow beautifully across the page. When the narrator is telling a story in a unique way, almost like a song, with a melody that flows and has entrancing rhythm. That’s what reading Brown Girl Dreaming was like. Each verse flowed. Each moment was eloquently described. Each passage was a memory and each memory was the story of childhood, race, family, the north and the south. In Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson tells her story of being a young black girl in 1960s and 1970s in the midst of the civil rights movement. She moved with her family from Ohio, to Greenville, South Carolina to New York City. Each location shed a different life on what life could be, how society viewed her and what was expected of her. It begins with the beginning of her life and the stories that were told to her of her own existence. It is simple in the way that stories are passed from ear to ear. I