REGISTER NOW for Jacqueline Woodson and Samira Ahmed, in conversation at Gary Comer Youth Center, THIS SUNDAY 9/22!
REGISTER NOW for Jacqueline Woodson and Samira Ahmed, in conversation at Gary Comer Youth Center, THIS SUNDAY 9/22!
Red at the Bone opens in 2001 on the evening of 16-year-old Melody’s coming-of-age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. She is wearing a dress that had been measured and sewn for her mother, Iris, whose ceremony was canceled when she became pregnant. The book then jumps backward in time to tell the stories of Melody’s parents and grandparents, examining the role of history and community on two African American families of different social classes brought together by this pregnancy, all while exploring issues of sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, and parenthood.
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Red at the Bone opens in 2001 on the evening of 16-year-old Melody’s coming-of-age ceremony in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. She is wearing a dress that had been measured and sewn for her mother, Iris, whose ceremony was canceled when she became pregnant. The book then jumps backward in time to tell the stories of Melody’s parents and grandparents, examining the role of history and community on two African American families of different social classes brought together by this pregnancy, all while exploring issues of sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, and parenthood.
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