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A review by books_baking_brews
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
5.0
Thank you @riverheadbooks for the ARC #ownvoice copy for my review!
Synopsis: 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.
Review: This is a beautifully written books, both in style and substance. Woodson's writing has a delicate and gorgeous lyricism to it. I'm not quite sure how she packed so much into so few pages but she did it masterfully--just a glimpse, just enough to make me know these characters and to be sad to leave them.
I'm calling it, this will definitely be in my top 10 for the year. I need to go back and read it again, there were so many lines and passages I want to go back and visit. "Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn't even know it was out of? She had a flash in her eyes--a spark of something solid and deep. All these years later, I still don't know how to talk about what I saw. But it moved from her eyes down around her cheekbones and on over her lips. Even in the bone straight of her back, you could see it. I wanted it with me, that thing she had insider her that I still can't explain. I wanted it...."
Five stars.
Synopsis: 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.
Review: This is a beautifully written books, both in style and substance. Woodson's writing has a delicate and gorgeous lyricism to it. I'm not quite sure how she packed so much into so few pages but she did it masterfully--just a glimpse, just enough to make me know these characters and to be sad to leave them.
I'm calling it, this will definitely be in my top 10 for the year. I need to go back and read it again, there were so many lines and passages I want to go back and visit. "Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn't even know it was out of? She had a flash in her eyes--a spark of something solid and deep. All these years later, I still don't know how to talk about what I saw. But it moved from her eyes down around her cheekbones and on over her lips. Even in the bone straight of her back, you could see it. I wanted it with me, that thing she had insider her that I still can't explain. I wanted it...."
Five stars.