![]() ![]() In 2014, she won a National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming, a middle-grade memoir in verse. Woodson, internationally renowned for her work for young readers, has published more than 30 books over as many years. ![]() The novel is both a uniquely black story about multigenerational love and upward mobility–and a universal American tale of striving, failing, then trying again. Jacqueline Woodson’s latest book for adults looks at a middle-class black family in Brooklyn and the struggles and triumphs that brought them to this moment, celebrating the daughter who was the unexpected product of a teenage romance. A treasure awaits readers who encounter Red at the Bone, who descend the staircase with a loose step as 16-year-old Melody does in her coming-of-age party at the start of the novel. ![]()
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