Red At The Bone - Riverhead Kel Ediciones

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Editorial: PENGUIN GROUP USA

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN: 9780593086414

Reseña:  A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off. -Ibram X. Kendi #1 New York Times-bestselling author of  HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST in The Atlantic An exquisite tale of family legacy….The power and poetry of Woodson’s writing conjures up Toni Morrison. – People   In less than 200 sparsely filled pages this book manages to encompass issues of class education ambition racial prejudice sexual desire and orientation identity mother-daughter relationships parenthood and loss….With Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen — even further into the ranks of great literature. – NPR   This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath history and legacy will resonate with mothers and daughters. –Tayari Jones bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE in O Magazine An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and exposes the private hopes disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us from each other from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.    Moving forward and backward in time Jacqueline Woodsons taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences decisions and relationships of these families and in the life of the new child. As the book opens in 2001 it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melodys coming of age ceremony in her grandparents Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends making her entrance to the music of Prince she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melodys mother for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melodys parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs the tolls theyve paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity ambition gentrification education class and status and the life-altering facts of parenthood Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.