{"product_id":"what-we-lose-9780735221734","title":"What We Lose","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAspen Words Literary Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan, T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ehe Huffington Post, The A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The debut novel of the year.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Like so many stories of the black diaspora, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Lose\u003c\/i\u003e is an examination of haunting.\" --Doreen St. F lix, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.\" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Lose\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.\" --\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like \u003ci\u003eWhat We Lose\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.\" \u003ci\u003e--Essence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom an 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaised in Pennsylvania, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Lose\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780735221734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Zinzi Clemmons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36640834879644,"sku":"9780735221734","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2de1442b-4b21-48cb-bc05-af1671ab2468.jpg?v=1607551842","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-we-lose-9780735221734","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}