Red at the Bone

Produktbeschreibung

THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020

'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates 'Generous and big-hearted' Brit Bennett 'A true spell of a book' Ocean Vuong 'A proclamation' R,O, Kwon 'A little masterpiece' Paula Hawkins 'I adored this book' Elizabeth MacNeal 'Pure poetry' Observer 'A sharply focused gem' Sunday Times 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist 'Haunting' Guardian 'Prose that sings off the page' Mail on Sunday 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Razor-sharp' Vanity Fair 'Urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times

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, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place,

Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, identity, class and parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are, 

Kritik

ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR:
New York Times
Washington Post
Time
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O, The Oprah Magazine
Elle
Good Housekeeping
Esquire
NPR
New York Public Library
Library Journal
Kirkus
BookRiot
She Reads
The Undefeated 

Autoreninfo

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books, including the 2016 New York Times-bestselling National Book Award finalist for adult fiction, Another Brooklyn, and Red at the Bone, which was longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. Among her many accolades, Woodson is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, a four-time National Book Award finalist, a two-time NAACP Image Award winner and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Woodson was the recipient of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award and the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition given to an author of children's books. Her New York Times-bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, received the National Book Award in 2014. She lives with her family in New York.