Red at the Bone -

Jacqueline Woodson

Riverhead Books

2019

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-10: 0525535276

Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, escorted by her father to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place.

Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

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Em carne viva

Definitivamente, livros sobre maternidade sempre serão os melhores na minha opinião, mas nesse livro não temos só isso, como as histórias de geração de cada família.
A fuga de Iris para com a maternidade é o ponto alto dessa obra, mas não só isso, a sua relação consigo mesma, sua vida sexual, sentimental e a busca incessante para encontrar algo melhor, ao ver da própria pra si, é instigante de certo modo, mas isso não deixa de ter consequências , a maior delas a perda da filha, mesmo que esta ainda esteja viva.
Eu achei o livro um pouco complicado de ler em certos pontos já que eu demorava a me habituar a cada novo personagem que dava seu ponto de vista a história, mas considero uma abordagem interessante no que tange a dividir uma obra em capítulos que muitas vezes não se passam ao mesmo tempo.
É uma leitura curta, mas que entrega muito em conteúdo e reflexões, super indico.