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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
RED AT THE BONE is a story of a family legacy told from several different perspectives. When Melody unexpected becomes pregnant at 16, two families of different classes are forced to come together and decide what direction one young girls life will go in, before she even has found herself.
For such a tiny book, it tackles so many issues including race, identity and sexual desire, class and gentrification, education and ambition, family and parenthood, and how one decision in a family’s history can alter the lives of so many to come.
The audio, in Jacqueline Woodson's poetic voice and others narrating, is lyrically breathtaking and I highly recommend listening to this one. It dreamily moves back and forward in time and the prose is raw and though provoking. It opened my eyes to the issue of Black generational wealth and also provided some insight into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, that I knew very little about.
For such a tiny book, it tackles so many issues including race, identity and sexual desire, class and gentrification, education and ambition, family and parenthood, and how one decision in a family’s history can alter the lives of so many to come.
The audio, in Jacqueline Woodson's poetic voice and others narrating, is lyrically breathtaking and I highly recommend listening to this one. It dreamily moves back and forward in time and the prose is raw and though provoking. It opened my eyes to the issue of Black generational wealth and also provided some insight into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, that I knew very little about.