![]() ![]() But the boundary between writing for young people and writing for adults is not necessarily fixed it is often set by publishers rather than writers themselves. She is the recipient of four Newbery Honor awards, which recognise excellence in writing for young people her memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. ![]() Woodson’s name will be more familiar to readers in America and over there it is more familiar to readers of books published for children. And keep women a whole other hand away from the farthest tips of your fingernails. She tells her daughter, named August for the month of her birth, not to trust other women. ![]() ![]() In Jacqueline Woodson’s haunting novel the narrator’s mother understands the power of these connections and to her, this strength brings danger. But friendship – and especially the friendships between women – can be far more central to the formation of identity than romance. Is friendship the deepest kind of love? The publication last year of Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, which centres on the relationship between two childhood friends, and the success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, which are founded on the story of a friendship, point to a fascination with a bond that is often taken for granted or ignored altogether in favour of its more glamorous relative, romantic love. ![]()
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