Red at the Bone: The New York Times bestseller from the Natio .9

'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist (Best New Books for 2020)\n'Sublime... will strike you in the heart' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie\n'Profound, moving and consistently unexpected... Pure poetry' Observer\n'A true spell of a book' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous\n'Haunting' Guardian\n'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage\n'Dazzling... With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times\n'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of The Water Dancer\nBrooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place.\nUnfurling the history of Melody's f.