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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 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.
Family history
The novel opens with the young Melody's narrative on her coming of age party. However, the focus does not stop with her, slowly and powerfully it is the story of her mother, her father, her mother's mother and father's history that we are told.
Jacqueline Woodson writes about heritage, transmission, family's link, one's own path in the most stunning language.