There is so much going on in these few pages but Clemmons is able to address them in the most moving way. 69 likes, 6 comments - Erika (dailyebookdeals) on Instagram: ' THOUGHTS ABOUT What We Lose: A Novel by Zinzi Clemmons CW: Death of a parent, Cancer In. Short review: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons A delicate novel about grief, heritage and the role of death in life Save Annalisa Quinn Receive free Life & Arts updates We’ll send you a myFT. The book, explores mother-daughter relationship, grief, friendship, loss and racial tension in America and South Africa. Though too restrained, there are some inspired moments, and Clemmons admirably balances the story’s myriad complicated themes. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons is raw, profound, deeply moving and will in some instances leave you gutted. Peter moves to New York to marry Thandi and raise their child, Mahpee, but all parties soon glean the untenability of Thandi’s building a new family without processing the grief of her original one. The first third of the novel culminates with Thandi discovering that she is pregnant, before then detailing her mother’s illness and how the resulting heartbreak ushered Thandi into an ill-fated long distance relationship with Peter, the child’s father. Early chapters establish these dichotomies in content and form, contrasting Thandi’s charged visits to Johannesburg with her Philadelphia coming of age by way of photographs, articles, graphs, and song lyrics. Born to an American father and a South African mother, Thandi is a character defined by conflicting conceptions of identity, belonging, and class, divisions that only deepen in the wake of her mother’s death.
Exacting reflections on race, mourning, and family are at the center of this novel about a college student whose mother dies of cancer.
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