
Jason Reynolds is back this week for The Stacks Book Club discussion of Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. The novel tells the story of three generations of one family in Brooklyn, NY and the struggles and successes of life. We talk about the taboo of not loving motherhood, doubling down on disappointment, and sensitivity readers.
There are spoilers this week.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- Alice Walker
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

- Marco Rubio
- Yasiel Puig
- Educated by Tara Westover
- “Ep. 78 Educated by Tara Westover — The Stacks Book Club (Sarah Enni)”
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Tyler Perry
- Spike Lee
- Michelle Obama
- Cardi B
- Mitchell S. Jackson
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Ocean Vuong
- Kiese Laymon
- Tayari Jones
- Jericho Brown
- Darnell L. Moore
- Morgan Parker
- Morgan Jerkins
- Toni Morrison
- Damon Young
- Fahamu Pecou
- Tulsa Massacre
- September 11 Attacks
- Soul Food (George Tillman Jr., 1997)
- Serena Williams
- Oprah
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
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