Red at the bone
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
208 pages ; 20 cm
Edition
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Riverhead books, 2020.
Summary
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful 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 the new child. 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 music 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.
Call Number
PB FICTION W
Publication Date
2019-2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780525535287
Red at the Bone
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
196 pages ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2019.
Summary
"Two familes 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 music 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"--Adapted from jacket.
Call Number
FICTION WOODSON
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780525535270
Red at the bone
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
246 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Edition
First large print edition
Production / Publication Information
[New York] Random House Large Print, [2019]
Summary
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.
Call Number
LARGE PRINT FICTION WOODSON
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780593152256
Red at the bone
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
3 audio discs (4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Audio, [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 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.
Call Number
CD FICTION WOODSON
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780593147047
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