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Author:

Woodson, Jacqueline, author.

Title:

Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.

Publisher:

Riverhead Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

196 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Pregnancy.
African Americans.
Mother and child.
Women.
Families--Fiction.
Pregnancy
Black or African American
Family
Mother-Child Relations
Women
Mères et filles--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Noires américaines--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles noires américaines--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Noirs américains--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Grossesse.
Noirs américains.
Familles.
Mère et enfant.
Femmes.
pregnancy.
African American.
women (female humans)
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Women.
FICTION--General.--General.
Women
Pregnancy
Mother and child
African American families
African American women
African Americans
Families
Mothers and daughters
New York (State)--Brooklyn--Brooklyn
Family members.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Teenage pregnancy--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Fictional Work
Novels
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

Summary:

Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families and in the life of this child. As the book open 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. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly 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. -- From dust jacket.

ISBN:

0525535284
9780525535287
0525535276
9780525535270

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099754421

LCCN:

2019944103

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines) — Copies: 10