A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35Thandi is American, but not as American as some of her friends. She is South African, but South Africa terrifies her. She is a black woman with light skin.Her mother is dying.In exquisite vignettes of wry warmth and extraordinary emotional power, What We Lose tells Thandi’s story. Both raw and artful, minimal yet rich, it is an intimate portrait of love and loss, and a fierce meditation on race, sex, identity, and staying alive.‘The debut novel of the year … visceral, cerebral, provocative, elegiac. One can’t help but think of Clemmons as in the running to be the next-generation Claudia Rankine’ Vogue‘Luminescent’ Independent‘A lovely little headrush of a novel … if you enjoyed Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing then try this’ Sunday Times Style‘Bracingly clear-eyed … the tension between her steady prose and turbulent emotions is beautifully sustained’ Daily Mail‘Highly original. Zinzi Clemmons deftly explores grief, sex and identity’ Elle‘Concise and powerful. This original and challenging debut is a must-read for fans of literary fiction and memoir’ Bookriot‘Penetratingly good and written in vivid still life, What We Lose reads like a guided tour through a melancholic Van Gogh exhibit – wonderfully chromatic, transfixing and bursting with emotion. Zinzi Clemmons’s debut novel signals the emergence of a voice that refuses to be ignored’ Paul Beatty‘What We Lose navigates the many registers of grief, love and injustice . . . acutely moving’ Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland'I loved this beautiful, honest and entrancing meditation on love, loss and the relationships that enrich and complicate our lives’ Bernardine EvaristoZinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. 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. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College.• A beautiful, original and haunting novel – a universal story of human experience told in a new and fresh way• The heart-rending grappling with grief will appeal to fans of Grief is the Thing With Feathers (88kTCM) and H is for Hawk (264kTCM)• Success of The Good Immigrant (14k hardbacks TCM) and Claudia Rankine’s poetry book Citizen (7K TCM) are testament to a current hunger for books about raceCompetition: H Is For Hawk; Grief Is The Thing With Feathers; I Love Dick; Between The World And Me; Lonely City; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; H Is For Hawk; White Teeth;. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;Arundhati Roy; Rachel Cusk; Nikesh Shukla; Aminatta Forna; Niven Govinden; Colson Whitehead; Helen Macdonald; Max Porter; Han Kang; Chris Kraus; Ta-Nehisi Coates; Olivia Laing; Claudia Rankine; Deborah Levy; Maggie Nelson; Eimear McBride; Andrea Levy; Zadie Smith; Monica Ali;
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