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Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.

Summary:
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming-of-age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony - a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525535270 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0525535276 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 196 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 71 of 76 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 76 total copies.
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