Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson - Hardback - Women's Prize Longlisted Literary Fiction Novel

Condition: New Format: Hardback ISBN: 9781474616430 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Overview: Red at the Bone is Jacqueline Woodson's acclaimed adult novel, a taut, lyrical story that moves backward and forward across two generations to trace how a single unexpected pregnancy reshapes two Brooklyn families. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and a New York Times bestseller, it explores class, race, ambition and legacy with rare emotional precision. Perfect for readers of literary fiction, book clubs, and anyone drawn to intimate, multi-generational family stories told with poetic restraint and quiet power. About the Book: Opening on the day of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming-of-age ceremony in a Brooklyn brownstone, Red at the Bone unravels backwards and forwards in time to reveal the history that brought her family to this moment. At its centre is an unplanned teenage pregnancy that binds together two families from very different social worlds — one working-class and rooted in tradition, the other more affluent and educated — each carrying its own hopes, wounds and unspoken tensions. Woodson moves fluidly between voices and decades, from the long shadow of the Tulsa race massacre to the September 11th attacks, showing how history, class and race quietly shape individual choices across generations. The novel is spare in length but dense in feeling, told in short, charged chapters that read almost like verse. Themes of motherhood, ambition, sacrifice and belonging recur throughout, as characters wrestle with the gap between the lives they imagined and the ones they were given. It rewards close, attentive reading, drawing comparison to Woodson's celebrated body of work for its clarity, compassion and lyrical control. Widely praised on publication, it earned a place on the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist and became a New York Times bestseller, cementing Woodson's reputation as one of today's finest literary voices on family, race and identity. Key B