RED AT THE BONE

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.It's 2001, the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the mu sic of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was mea...[Read more]