What we lose

Zinzi Clemmons

earliest edition we have, 2017 this edition, 2017 213 pages

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 s...

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What We Lose paperback · 2018 · Penguin Books · 224 pages · 9780735221734
What we lose edition · 2018 · 213 pages · 9780008245979
What we lose edition · 2018 · 281 pages · 9781432846411
What we lose edition · 2017 · 213 pages · 9780735221710
What We Lose edition · 2017 · Friday Project, The · 9780008245948
What We Lose edition · 2017 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008245955
What We Lose edition · 2017 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780008245931

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