What we lose
By: Zinzi Clemmons
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780008245979
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: South African Americans; Loss (Psychology); African American women; Racially mixed people; Mothers and daughters; Fiction
Description: Thandi is a black woman, but often mistaken for Hispanic or Asian. She is American, but doesn't feel as American as some of her friends. She is South African, but doesn't belong in South Africa either. Her mother is dying. A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death.
Notes: First published in the United States by Viking in 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.