IN THEIR WORDS
+BORO UGH DEEP: Woodson switched from children’s iction to an adult novel about old Brooklyn because “so many of us don’t know about the land we’re walking on.”
ONEWORLD; JUNA F. NAGLE
WHEN American author Jacqueline Woodson was growing up in Bushwick— years when middle-class white families were leaving the Brooklyn neighborhood and working-class families of color were moving in— there was a factory near where she lived. Every afternoon, tired workers would spill out onto the sidewalk. Today, that building, Woodson says, is on its way to becoming condos. But the factory lingers in her memories of a different world.