The Resource What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons
What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons
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The item What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "From a debut author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country. 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. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi's life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman's understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades, What We Lose heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- What we lose : a novel
- Title
- What we lose
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Zinzi Clemmons
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From a debut author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country. 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. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi's life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman's understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades, What We Lose heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clemmons, Zinzi
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.L472
- LC item number
- W48 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- Mothers and daughters
- Loss (Psychology)
- Label
- What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735221710
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017019757
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn966377329
- Label
- What we lose : a novel, Zinzi Clemmons
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735221710
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2017019757
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn966377329
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