What we lose
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"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 searches for an anchor - someone, or something, to love."--
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I still feel conflicted 24 hours after finishing this short novel. What We Lose had beautiful writing, and an emotional storyline, but the structure felt jarring. I wish the author had written another 100 pages, to fully explore some of the vignettes that felt cut too short. Not a hit for me, but I would definitely read more by this author.
