"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other . . . 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"--Provided by publisher.
year: 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mother-daughter relationship, fiction, african americans, teenage pregnancy, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction, domestic fiction, bildungsromans
Editions
Woodson, Jacqueline
Follows the story of five members of one family who feel the lasting effects of a teen pregnancy between Iris and her lover Aubrey, and Iris' decision to leave the child, Melody to be raised by Aubrey and her parents Sabe and Po'Boy so that she can further her education and career.
Schools: 18
Woodson, Jacqueline
Riverhead Books (2020)
"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other . . . 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"--Provided by publisher.
Schools: 2