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Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.O64524 R43 2019
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Van Pelt - Bestsellers Collection PS3573.O64524 R43 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodson, Jacqueline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Pregnancy.
- Mother and child.
- Women.
- Black or African American.
- Family.
- Mother-Child Relations.
- pregnancy.
- african american.
- women (female humans).
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Family members.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pregnancy.
- Black or African American.
- Family.
- Mother-Child Relations.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
- 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.
- Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpect4ed pregnancy and the child that it produces.
- Notes:
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Honor, 2020
- Other Format:
- Also issued as: Woodson, Jacqueline. Red at the bone.
- Electronic version: Woodson, Jacqueline. Red at the bone.
- ISBN:
- 9780525535270
- 0525535276
- 9780525535287
- 0525535284
- OCLC:
- 1099754421
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