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Woodson has written a richly textured memoir in verse, poems that flow one to the next that endlessly. I was sad to come to the end. BROWN GIRL DREAMING begins with a family tree of the Ohio Woodsons and her mother’s family, the Irby family from South Carolina. Then “i am born” with her birth in Ohio and her father’s wish to have a boy named after him, Jack. Her mother would not let him name a girl Jack, so she was named Jacqueline, until years later in Brooklyn school, when told to write her na
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Beautiful poetic account of the author's childhood
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