{"id":55269,"date":"2017-11-27T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55269"},"modified":"2017-11-27T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T02:13:47","slug":"what-we-lose-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55269","title":{"rendered":"What We Lose, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

What We Lose, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Viking<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House)
\n2017-07-11
\n224 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0735221710
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0008245948<\/p>\n

Zinzi Clemmons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age\u2014a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country<\/em><\/p>\n

Raised in Pennsylvania<\/a>, Thandi views the world of her mother\u2019s childhood in Johannesburg<\/a> as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor\u2014someone, or something, to love.<\/p>\n

In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi\u2019s life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman\u2019s understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades, What We Lose<\/em> heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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