A review by bellaruffell
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
5.0
The book opens on the evening of a 16 year old girls coming of age ceremony in her grandparents house. This book unfurls the history of Melody’s parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment.
I loved everything about this book. It is beautifully written and the characters have been made so authentic and real. This book explores so many important themes such as mother/ daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy, ambition, fatherhood and sexual identity. Woodson managers to provoke emotions that change as the story progresses. It is such an insight into how young people make decisions about their lives, things that will affect them in the future, not realizing what that entails.
Red at the bone will mesmerize you with its spellbinding tale how people from different origins and backgrounds come together, love, create a new life, stay or go their different ways and continue living. This is one of my favourites of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020.
I loved everything about this book. It is beautifully written and the characters have been made so authentic and real. This book explores so many important themes such as mother/ daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy, ambition, fatherhood and sexual identity. Woodson managers to provoke emotions that change as the story progresses. It is such an insight into how young people make decisions about their lives, things that will affect them in the future, not realizing what that entails.
Red at the bone will mesmerize you with its spellbinding tale how people from different origins and backgrounds come together, love, create a new life, stay or go their different ways and continue living. This is one of my favourites of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020.