Red at the Bone

From the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of “Another Brooklyn” and “Brown Girl Dreaming” comes an extraordinary novel about two young characters from different social classes brought together by an unhoped-for pregnancy. This poetic, beautifully wrought novel packs a literary punch of staggering richness as the narrative moves back and forth from the current generation to the one before. It opens in 2001 at the 16th birthday party of Melody, in her grandparents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Melody wears a dress that had been custom-made for her mother sixteen years earlier for her own party. Melody’s mother never wore the dress—that party was canceled because she was pregnant. I loved floating back and forth and witnessing the initial reactions of Melody’s grandparents when their daughter became pregnant at such a young age, how they rally around her regardless, and how they did what had to be done so their daughter could still walk the path she was meant to. This book is about family, destiny, love unrequited, and desire. “Red at the Bone” is sure to be a literary sensation!