Another Brooklyn

Gigi starts attending a performing arts school in Manhattan. Around this time, Sylvia’s father looks more closely at August and the others and forbids Sylvia from seeing them. When they come to her house, he informs them that Sylvia will be attending a new private school. He then tells them to go home and become better people. When he says this, they feel embarrassed of themselves. Worse, they see themselves in one another, so they part ways, not wanting to confront their own identities. 

Although Sylvia no longer goes to school with her friends, she manages to see them frequently, meeting them in the park and smoking marijuana that she brings with her. That winter, Gigi is cast in multiple lead roles at her performing arts school and Angela devotes herself to dancing. August, for her part, spends the winter going to mosque with her family and Sister Loretta, listening to other women ask about her mother. When August’s father explains that August’s mother is gone, August can’t help but think about the conversation she had with him about the contents of the jar he keeps in the apartment, although she now refers to it as an urn. Still, she refuses to admit that she knows what’s inside this urn. In bed at night, she speaks to her mother, promising her that someday her father will take them back to SweetGrove.