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Red at the Bone

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

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Red at the Bone

By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Jacqueline Woodson, Peter Francis James, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Shayna Small
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

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.

©2019 Jacqueline Woodson (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group
African American City Life Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban World Literature
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