Woodson, Jacqueline

Red at the Bone [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jacqueline Woodson to title page. Copyright page shows full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/4" X 5 3/8". 196pp. Mild lifting up at edges to dust jacket, featuring gold "Signed first edition" label to front panel. Teal paper over boards, with spine backed in pale blue and lettered in burgundy. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. A very presentable signed first printing of the work of National Book Award-winning and New York Times-Bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson.

ABOUT RED AT THE BONE:
A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off. -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST.

An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.

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.

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.

Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly 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. Very good + / very good. Item #6900
ISBN: 9780525535270

Price: $30.00