Renée Watson on skin & bones, with Jennifer Baker
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.
Books will be available for purchase from Books Are Magic.
Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include the Ryan Hart series, Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, and Love Is a Revolution, as well as acclaimed picture books: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, written with Nikole Hannah–Jones, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.
Jennifer Baker is an author/editor, the creator & host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and on faculty at Bay Path University’s MFA program in creative nonfiction. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA grant and Queens Council on the Arts grant in Nonfiction. She is the editor of the short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018) and the author of Forgive Me Not (2023) a finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an NYPL 2023 Best Book for Teens and 2023 Best of the Best by the BCALA. Her website is: jennifernbaker.com.
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.
Books will be available for purchase from Books Are Magic.
Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include the Ryan Hart series, Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, and Love Is a Revolution, as well as acclaimed picture books: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, written with Nikole Hannah–Jones, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New York City.
Jennifer Baker is an author/editor, the creator & host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and on faculty at Bay Path University’s MFA program in creative nonfiction. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA grant and Queens Council on the Arts grant in Nonfiction. She is the editor of the short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018) and the author of Forgive Me Not (2023) a finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an NYPL 2023 Best Book for Teens and 2023 Best of the Best by the BCALA. Her website is: jennifernbaker.com.
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