# Red at the Bone

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- Book: [Red at the Bone](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson/red-at-the-bone) ([Red at the Bone.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson/red-at-the-bone.md))
- Authors: [Jacqueline Woodson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacqueline-woodson)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7461-647-8
- Published: 2019-09-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. 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. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents - from the 1921 Tulsa 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 long-lasting decisions about their lives - even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.