![]() ![]() Woodson's language is beautiful throughout Red at the Bone, but it positively soars in the sections written from Iris' mother's point of view. There isn't a character in this book you don't come to care about, even when you question their choice. In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss - yet never feels like a checklist of Important Issues. The narrative nimbly jumps around in time and shifts points of view among five characters who span three generations as it builds toward its moving climax. ![]() It reads like poetry and drama, a cry from the heart that often cuts close to the bone. Woodson continues her sensitive exploration of what it means to be a black girl in America. Jacqueline Woodson begins her powerful new novel audaciously, with the word 'But.' Well, there are no buts about this writer's talent. ![]()
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