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A review by carlisajc
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0
JACQUELINE WOODSON AND NON-FICTION REQUIREMENTS.
Brown Girl Dreaming is a free-verse memoir written by Jacqueline Woodson about her life in South Carolina and then Brooklyn as a young, black girl.
This book is beautiful. I've come to realize that I have an affinity for free-verse novels just because of how powerful they can be in such a small amount of words. When you are more limited with your word count, you really have to choose every word carefully. Which word could make the most impact, which word could bring forth right emotion. Everything is considered, and you can see that is Woodson's story.
Memoirs are interesting because it's just a story of certain parts of her life. It's not like a fiction novel where a direct story is told, or a biography where the entire life is laid out. Instead Woodson picks and chooses what she wants her audience to see, thus shaping the experience we have. And it's a great experience. We see how different people have treated her because of her race in many different areas of the country, and even though we might never have experience what she did...we empathize. And that's what makes a great story.
Brown Girl Dreaming is a free-verse memoir written by Jacqueline Woodson about her life in South Carolina and then Brooklyn as a young, black girl.
This book is beautiful. I've come to realize that I have an affinity for free-verse novels just because of how powerful they can be in such a small amount of words. When you are more limited with your word count, you really have to choose every word carefully. Which word could make the most impact, which word could bring forth right emotion. Everything is considered, and you can see that is Woodson's story.
Memoirs are interesting because it's just a story of certain parts of her life. It's not like a fiction novel where a direct story is told, or a biography where the entire life is laid out. Instead Woodson picks and chooses what she wants her audience to see, thus shaping the experience we have. And it's a great experience. We see how different people have treated her because of her race in many different areas of the country, and even though we might never have experience what she did...we empathize. And that's what makes a great story.