THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 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 'A wonderful tragic inspiring
story' Metro 'Prose that sings off the page... Gorgeous' Mail on Sunday 'A nuanced portrait
of shifting family relationships' Financial Times 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O The Oprah
Magazine 'Razor-sharp' Vanity Fair 'Dazzling... With urgent vital insights into questions of
class gender race history queerness and sex' New York Times An unexpected teenage
pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes and exposes the private
hopes disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us. From the New York Times
-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming
. 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 making her
entrance to the music of Prince she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress
that was sewn for a different wearer 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 the
life-altering facts of 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
and what they want to be. *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times Washington
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