![]() ![]() As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melodys coming of age ceremony in her grandparents Brooklyn brownstone. 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. REVIEWS: Red at the Bone : NY Times GoodReads NPR Book Companion AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ![]() 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 Red Sox challenge the foul off Raimel Tapia but the call stands following the review. ![]() 'A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story' Metro 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist ![]()
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