![]() ![]() The hosts of the celebration are Grandma Sabe and Grandpa Po’Boy, both of whom remember how their lives were affected by Melody’s birth and how much time has passed since they too were young and madly in love. At Melody’s coming-of-age celebration, Iris and Aubrey find themselves reflecting on their own relationship and mistakes and confronting their growing fears about their maturing daughter. She is the unplanned product of her parents Iris and Aubrey’s teenage tryst. The novel’s fragmented narrative style is figuratively and literally tied together by the sixteen-year-old character Melody. ![]() “Guess that’s where the tears came from, knowing that there’s so much in this great big world that you don’t have a single ounce of control over.” said by Po’Boy, Red at the Bone, page 49Ī kaleidoscope of Black experiences and parenthood, Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson is a sharp, layered novel about growing up, the tough decisions and revelations that come with it, and the responsibility we all have to our ancestors and their sacrifices. ![]() I wanted to write about friendship and all of these things that I felt like were missing in a lot of the books that I read as a child.” Jacqueline Woodson, 2009 I wanted to write about communities of color. “ to write about communities that were familiar to me and people that were familiar to me. Woodson’s novel was longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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