Red at the Bone Cover:Hardcover I wanted her to know

I wanted her to know that different didn’t mean bad

Or hiding who she is to fit in

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee

and darkly subversive

Red at the Bone Cover:Hardcover I wanted her to knowAn extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. 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,