Red at the bone
Woodson, Jacqueline,
Red at the bone - 196 pages ; 22 cm
"Two families 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.
9780525535270 0525535276
2019944103
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
PS3573.O64524 / R43 2019
813
Red at the bone - 196 pages ; 22 cm
"Two families 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.
9780525535270 0525535276
2019944103
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
PS3573.O64524 / R43 2019
813