Red at the bone
Woodson, Jacqueline2021
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Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of 16-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents - from the 1921 Tulsa massacre to post 9/11 New York - 'Red at the Bone' explores sexual desire, identity, class and the life-altering facts of parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives - even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
Main title:
Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
Collation:
196 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.
ISBN:
9781474616454 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3573.O64524
Language:
English
BRN:
2765721