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title: "Red at the Bone: A Novel Hardcover – September 17, 2019"
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price: "₨185"
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# Red at the Bone: A Novel Hardcover – September 17, 2019

**Brand:** jacqueline woodson
**Price:** ₨185
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** Red at the Bone: A Novel Hardcover – September 17, 2019 by jacqueline woodson
- **How much does it cost?** ₨185 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Story Woven Together Through Time With Love
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019*

“Iris pressed the cold envelopes and magazine against her lips.I was fifteen, she whispered into them. Fifteen. I wasn’t even anybody yet.”There’s so much love that flows through the pages of Woodson’s latest story, weaving back and forth through time to tell the story of a family through the ages. From Sabe’s story we know the time and place where she grew up, the things she’s seen, the history she’s lived through. All these provide insight into her daughter Iris’s coming future. A future that will include a daughter, a daughter that she will choose to leave behind as she heads off to college, leaving Melody with the father, Aubrey.”Maybe this was the moment when I knew I was part of a long line of almost erased stories. A child of denial. Of magical thinking. Of a time when Iris and my father wanted each other in . . . that way. The something they were so hungry for in each other becoming me.”This story is shared through the views of three generations, including Melody’s parents, and grandparents, sharing each generation’s regrets, fears, and the events that shaped their lives.”You sing the songs you remember from your own childhood. Mama may have. Papa may have . . .You remember your parents living, wrap the ancient photos of Lucille’s Hair Heaven and Papa Joe’s Supper Club pulled from the flames . . . and you rise. You rise. You rise.””So I rose.”Woodson excels in her ability to pull you into the story, between her spare prose, and the unfolding details of the lives of this family, there are many issues she also brings to light. The mother-daughter relationship, identity – as a black woman, as well as in terms of sexuality and orientation, and ambition as well as how economics creates a division of people into categories. Labels that are often difficult to break free from.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Poetic Story
  

*by C***B on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2022*

The members of "Turning Pages Book Club", felt that this short story had a poetic feel about it with the back and forth from the past to the present telling of events.The highlighting of race, class, generational traditions and educational attainment that  families try to keep intact for their children and grandchildren, while also bringing historical events that were in the past such as "The 1921 Tulsa Oklahoma Massacure and 911", which were historical tramatic events.The legacies that each generation leaves for the next generation is important to hold on to, for example,when Melody turns 16 her grandmother(Sabe) and grandfather (Po'Boy) give her a coming out ceremony that is part of their middle class cultural tradition, where you wear all white, dance to an ochestra, dance the "cakewalk,lindy and waltz". Where the honoree recites poetry from a famous poet, such as "Paul Laurence Dunbar". This had cultural middle class values for the grandparents generation, but not the next generation that followed.Melody who is the 16 year old honoree, states her shoes hurt, then her friends all take off their shoes and do their own dance style and her parents (Iris and Aubrey) state," that  Melody, will want to recite a rap song" instead of a poem by "Paul Laurence Dunbar". The traditions if not continued soon die out.This was a well written short story about family, traditions, navigating love ,and,education.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    woodson is a beast of a storyteller
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024*

this was a tender, vulnerable, beautiful, sweet, wholesome, gutting read

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