TY - BOOK AU - Clemmons,Zinzi TI - What we lose: a novel SN - 9780735221710 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - Viking KW - African American women KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Bildungsromans N2 - 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."-- ER -