Red at the Bone is Woodson’s second novel for adults, following 2016’s Another Brooklyn as well as her widely praised 2014 memoir-in-poems, Brown Girl Dreaming, which won the prestigious National Book Award for young people’s literature. “With adults, you can play around with time,’” she says. The novel explores this rift and its consequences over time, shifting between the perspectives of different family members and offering unusual narrative freedom for Woodson, who writes primarily for younger readers. Her coming-of-age party is a declaration of family pride, class status, and an effort to repair a broken link with the past, when Melody’s mother, Iris, skipped her own ceremony after becoming pregnant at 15. An orchestra is playing the Prince song she’s insisted on, against her mother’s wishes, while white passersby stop and gawk through the windows. The novel opens in 2001, as 16-year-old Melody descends the stairs in a debutante’s traditional white dress. A similar house is at the centre of her new novel, Red at the Bone, representing the struggle of a multigenerational black family to honour its past and stand firm against change. #read #booksofinstagram #booklovers,#classicbooks #morebooks #bookobsessed,#bookmemes #bookaholic #thrillerbookA uthor Jacqueline Woodson lives in a quintessential Brooklyn brownstone with her partner, two children, a cat and two huge, friendly dogs. 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.
Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress.
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.
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