Description
At sixteen-year-old Melody’s coming-of-age ceremony in a Brooklyn brownstone, family, music, and memory converge—and the elegant dress she wears carries the weight of a celebration her mother never had. Moving across generations and through the defining moments of one family’s history, the novel explores how an unexpected pregnancy reshapes two families from different social worlds. With lyrical precision and emotional depth, it examines identity, motherhood, class, sexuality, ambition, and the bonds that both burden and sustain us.
Available Editions
paperback
Riverhead Books
Published Jan 1, 2019
196 pages
ISBN: 9780525535270
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson.