- New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, african american, women, Fiction, family life
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. 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, making her entrance to the music 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"--Adapted from jacket.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Woodson
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Penguin Audio, W&N, Diversified Publishing
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781474616454
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- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, african american, women
- Fiction, family life
- Mothers and daughters, fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- African americans, fiction
- Fiction, african american & black, women
- American literature
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- Fiction, family life, general
- Families
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