What We Lose: A Novel
ααααααΆ 2017 Β· Penguin
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A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR,Β Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed,Β San Francisco Chronicle,Β Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post,Β The A.V. Club, The Root,Β Harperβs Bazaar,Β Paste,Β Bustle,Β Kirkus Reviews,Β Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books,Β andΒ Bust
βThe debut novel of the year.β βVogue
βLike so many stories of the black diaspora, What We Lose is an examination of haunting.β βDoreen St. FΓ©lix, The New Yorker
βRaw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.β βNicole Dennis-Benn,Β O, the Oprah Magazine
βStunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.β βBuzzfeed
βRemember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.β βEssence
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of ageβa deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country
Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her motherβs 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 anchorβsomeone, or something, to love.
In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandiβs 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 womanβs understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades,Β What We LoseΒ heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR,Β Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed,Β San Francisco Chronicle,Β Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post,Β The A.V. Club, The Root,Β Harperβs Bazaar,Β Paste,Β Bustle,Β Kirkus Reviews,Β Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books,Β andΒ Bust
βThe debut novel of the year.β βVogue
βLike so many stories of the black diaspora, What We Lose is an examination of haunting.β βDoreen St. FΓ©lix, The New Yorker
βRaw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.β βNicole Dennis-Benn,Β O, the Oprah Magazine
βStunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.β βBuzzfeed
βRemember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.β βEssence
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of ageβa deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country
Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her motherβs 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 anchorβsomeone, or something, to love.
In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandiβs 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 womanβs understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades,Β What We LoseΒ heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.
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Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A graduate of Brown and Columbia, her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review Daily, Transition, and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor to Literary Hub. She has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Dar al-Ma'mΓ»n in Marrakech, Morocco. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with her husband, where she teaches at The Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College.
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