. >> brown: the park is in the brooklyn neighborhood of bushwick, where author jacqueline woodson camehe 1970s. her new novel, set in that timet and place, is about four teenage friends, as woodson writes "growing up girl" in the citywo with big aspirations, but also suffering terrible losses along the way. it's called "another brooklyn". >> i knew it was going to be an" story about friendship and the way people come together and eventually come apart. so i just went in, and of course having grown up girl in brooklyn myself, it was, i had some information that i needed to tell this story.or >> brown: and you wanted to tell this because? >> i don't think it's a story that's really been told in that way that we talk intimately i about the complexity of what it means to grow up not only "girl," but to grow up a girl of color, and grow up specifically an african-american girl, or a caribbean-american girl, in the city. i had the main character of bushwick, which is a character i knew well because i grew up there, but... >> brown: you mean the place as a character?..la >> yeah, the place. >