A review by openmypages
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson

4.0

This is a hard story to rate. I enjoyed every second of reading it, the writing was beautiful and poetic. I loved the multiple POVs and identified with each character in different ways. It's a story about familial relations, finding yourself and learning to live with the consequences of your decisions. I so wholeheartedly identify with Melody and her struggles to feel bonded to and loved by her mother. And yet I also identify with Iris's need to make something of herself and escape her small world to find herself. I didn't really have the other strong family support that Melody did but I so enjoyed her family member's stories and how they were drawn to love and protect her. This is a great easy read that is a beautiful dip into a culture other than my own and yet is so easily relatable as my story.