What we lose : a novel /
Clemmons, Zinzi,
What we lose : a novel / Zinzi Clemmons. - 213 pages ; 22 cm
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."--
9780735221710 0735221715
2017019757
African American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
What we lose : a novel / Zinzi Clemmons. - 213 pages ; 22 cm
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."--
9780735221710 0735221715
2017019757
African American women--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.