Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.

  • Woodson, Jacqueline
Date:
2021
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.

Physical description

196 pages ; 20 cm

Edition

Paperback edition.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    UV.AI
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ISBN

  • 9781474616454
  • 1474616453