What we lose
About this book
A "novel about a young African-American woman coming of age... Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg 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 - someone, or something, to love."--
Subjects
- african american
- african americans, fiction
- african american women
- contemporary women
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, general
- fiction, african american, general
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- general
- large type books
- literary
- loss (psychology)
- mothers and daughters
- mothers and daughters, fiction