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REVIEWS: Red at the Bone
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 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. Moving forward and backward in
time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers
the role that history and community have played in the
experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and
in the life of the new child.
Characters: 23. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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