Red at the Bone should be on everyone's to-read list. A book that embraces class, desire, race, gender, ambition and tragedy, all with exemplary subtlety.
Profound, moving and consistently unexpected. Red at the Bone glistens with sheer beauty.
* Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF *Ī banger - Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of THE WATER DANCER It's a generous, big-hearted novel that explores the pressures ambition and desire place on two young parents, as well as the histories they inherit that continue to shape the family for generations. Red at the Bone is a beautiful portrait of two families bonded through a teenage pregnancy and later fractured as its members follow their diverging paths. * Tayari Jones, Women's Prize-winning author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE * This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and its legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters. As moody, spare, and intense as a Picasso line drawing. * Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE *Īn epic in miniature. Woodson writes the beautiful complication that can be intergenerational relationships with love, and a richness that is breathtaking. *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times Washington Post Time USA Today O, The Oprah Magazine Elle Good Housekeeping Esquire NPR New York Public Library Library Journal Kirkus BookRiot She Reads The Undefeated ***Ĭompletely sublime and immersive, Red at the Bone will strike you in the heart.
Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race 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 fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. 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. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York TimesĪn unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us.įrom the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.īrooklyn, 2001. 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O, The Oprah Magazine 'A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships' Financial Times 'A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story' Metro 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist
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