AUTOBIOGRAPHY Of A FAMILY PHOTO. A Novel. [Hardcover]

Jacqueline. Woodson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Dutton,; First edition. edition (1995)
• ASIN: B001RFWBDG
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Jacqueline Woodson's awards include 3 Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and 3 Coretta Scott King Honors, 2 National Book Awards, a Margaret A. Edwards Award and an ALAN Award -- both for Lifetime Achievement in YA Literature. She is the author of more than 2 dozen books for children and young adults and lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking..., August 1, 2000

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Sonya "ParaNormal & Romance Reviewer" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autobiography of a Family Photo: A Novel (Paperback)

I have to admit, it has been a while since I read this book, but from what I can remember this book brought to light a lot of issues that one confronts growing up and approaching adulthood. The main character is forced to deal with a lot of heavy matters as many young people must do by no choice of their own. Reading this book made me think of the things that we experience as children that we don't stop to consider until years later.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, August 3, 2008

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J. Besser - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autobiography of a Family Photo: A Novel (Paperback)

I was fortunate enough to have found this book years ago. It is such a good book! It's very short, but poetic & beautiful. It's the kind of book that you can just read over and over again. I can't tell you how many times I've read it. It does have mature themes, so it's not for Woodson's typical juvenile audience. However it is a great book for the grown up readers out there. I can't recommend it enough! - I guess my only disappointment is that Woodson only writes for kids now, so she doesn't have any other books out there like this one.

4.0 out of 5 stars Sparse, potent, compelling, December 11, 2003

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"blissengine" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autobiography of a Family Photo: A Novel (Paperback)

With a stark clarity, a little girl tells about her life growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s. They are poor and dark-skinned, except for her baby brother, whose skin tells a different story. Her older brother is lively and loves wearing their mother's heels, but he's shipped off to Vietnam. She chronicles her life and the world around her, about how everyone knows if you don't let someone do it to you, you'll never get married. And about how wanting to kiss your best friend and touch her doesn't mean anything, anything at all in this dark and collapsing world. "Autobiography of a Family Photo" is a spirited, poetic, and dark tale of hope in the strangling grasp of a world without love. It's about that hazy line between courage and obstinacy that few can delineate, and even fewer can balance. This novel is considered one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels by the Publishing Triangle.