Woodson, Jacqueline creator author. text Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Print books. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. nyu 2019 2019 monographic eng

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196 pages ; 22 cm "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. Jacqueline Woodson. n-us-ny Mothers and daughters Fiction African American women Fiction African American families Fiction Families Fiction African Americans Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women FICTION / African American / General African American families African American women African Americans Families Mothers and daughters Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction New York (State) New York Brooklyn PS3573.O64524 R43 2019 Woodson, Jacqueline. New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019 Woodson, Jacqueline. New York : Riverhead Books, 2019 (OCoLC)1120048559 9781474616454 2019944103 NHP 190619 20260128125530.0 21025672 eng