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Skin & Bones
by Renée Watson

    Publication Date: May 07, 2024
    List Price: $30.00
    Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780316570886
    Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
    Publisher: Hachette Book Group
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

    Description of Skin & Bones by Renée Watson

    From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next.

    At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.

    Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through it all, she works tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses, sidestepping her well-meaning co-workers that don't understand that their good intentions are often offensive and hurtful.

    Through Watson's poetic voice, skin & bones is a stirring exploration of who society makes space for and is ultimately a story of heartbreak and healing.