Syracuse

de Jacqueline Woodson

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 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.
[En 2001, Melody fête ses 16 ans dans la maison familiale de Brooklyn. Elle porte une robe qui avait été cousue pour une autre jeune fille, Iris, sa mère, qui devait elle aussi fêter son entrée dans l'âge adulte seize ans auparavant. Une fresque familiale qui retrace leur histoire et celle des parents d'Iris, débutant lors du massacre de Tulsa en 1921.]