What we lose

By Zinzi Clemmons

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, African americans, fiction, African American women, General, Large type books, African American, Contemporary Women, Fiction, african american, general, FICTION, Literary, Fiction, family life, Fiction, african american & black, general, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Mothers and daughters

Description: 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."--