![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins and ends in Brooklyn, but incorporates the stories of how both Iris and Aubrey’s families came to live there, and also watches Iris experiment with living elsewhere. The author dedicates the book to “the ancestors, a long long line of you bending and twisting.” How does the story explore the idea of legacy? How does it look at the passing down of regret and loss and trauma and history, and also of love and guidance and wisdom and experience? Discuss your own legacies: What have you inherited in this way from your ancestors, and what will be passed on to future generations? How do these legacies compare to the legacies in Red at the Bone?Ĥ. Why do you think the author chose it? What does the phrase mean to you?ģ. Consider the title and how it works with the story. How do you think the lives of the characters-from each family-might have been different if Melody had never been conceived? Which characters gained or lost the most, ultimately, as a result of this unplanned child? Consider all the many ways in which their fortunes were altered.Ģ. In Red at the Bone, two families from different social classes are brought together by an unexpected pregnancy. ![]()
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