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A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
California Book Award First Fiction Finalist
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Debut Novel Nominee
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The Root, Harper’s Bazaar, Paste, Bustle, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Bust

“The debut novel of the year.” —Vogue

“Like so many stories of the black diaspora, What We Lose is an examination of haunting.” —Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker

“A richly volatile study of grief, wonderment and love.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

“A startling, poignant debut.” —The Atlantic

“Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.” —Nicole Dennis-Benn, O, the Oprah Magazine

“Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.” —Buzzfeed

“Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.” —Essence

From 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

Raised 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.

In 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, What We Lose heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.

One of the New York Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Redbook, Marie Claire, Essence, Houston Chronicle, LA Daily News, Nylon, and Elle’s Books to Read This Summer

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Relié: 224 pages
Editeur : Viking (11 juillet 2017)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-10: 0735221715
ISBN-13: 978-0735221710
Dimensions du produit: 14,8 x 2 x 21,7 cm
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Loren Woodson

Beautiful and poetic; mixed reactions.

12 août 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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This is a book that evoked mixed responses in me. First of all, What We Lose reads to me more like a memoir than a novel, or as Ms Clemmons calls it at the end “this weird little book.” I like much of it, finding parts poetic, touching, involving, and conveying a great sense of authentic first-person experience—and engagingly inventive and creative in its use of various media sources and references. The parts about the mother’s illness and her dying and the narrator’s reaction are just beautiful, and the descriptions of South Africa and the multi-level forces in play there and her family’s history and involvements there are fascinating in a first-person journalistic way. But much of the book strikes me as absent a substrate of being informed by wider, deeper exploration of issues that go beyond the catharsis that grief rightly occasions—mainly for me, the lack of any ambivalence in her relationship with her mother (that I could find). Grief is so complicated in various ways but hugely because it involves our (largely buried) ambivalence in our relationship with the departed one. And few things, I have discovered, are more ambivalent than a child’s relationship with her/his mother (and vice versa). What we get from our mothers is inherently conflicted—from early on we need them in myriad ways and at some level want to merge with them (their presence, their safety, their nurturance), while at the same time we fear engulfment by them. Indeed, it seems Thandi’s (buried and unexamined) ambivalence about her mother came out in her relationship with her eventual husband Peter—and somewhat with her friend Aminah. And writing, I feel safe in saying, means plumbing the conflicts and ambivalences in a character’s relationships. There is certainly some of this in Thandi’s being bi-racial and bi-national—and I kept waiting for more of that to be woven into her relationships and the arc of the narrative, but I have to say I was left wanting more.

Clearly—not least by way of her CV and creative writing training—Ms Clemmons is a talented writer and has touched me enough to know there’s considerable authorial substance to her. I just feel there was more here in the elements of this book, with which she centered us on grief, than went sufficiently explored.

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Urenna

The Indelible Truth of Our Lives

2 août 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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Clemmons style, stream of conscious, demonstrates her character, Thandi’s, thoughts and feelings. Thandi gave her opinion on race, class, and color. Thandi’s feelings are ambivalent for the blacks in South Africa, her mother’s homeland. Her mother’s family, considered coloreds, do not identify with South African blacks and are shocked when Thandi, an American does. “…the binds of apartheid, we were still within its grip. It had become the indelible truth of our lives, and nothing—not sickness, not suffering, not death—could change that.” Thandi’s father was an African American.

She writes about her mother dying and then her death. Yet Thandi appeared lost before her death. Lost with a sense of self. She hungered for love.

She grieved and struggled with how to give new direction to her life. Yet coping with her loss triggered a heightened sex drive. In a threesome, she engaged with a couple she had met online. When she met the man whom would become her husband, on their second meeting, they had a weekend, which some might consider unsettling.

The book chapters moved back and forth over time, which I often found annoying, but this is stream of consciousness. Is this writing subjective? The writing seemed almost autobiographical and, if so, a compliment to the writer on her candidness.

The book reflects, to me, what Thandi lost a long time ago. There was no self-love. This character is interesting. Her parents provided her with a good home life, love, good quality education, and a summer home in South Africa. Yet, Thandi showed dysfunction.

I did not connect with Thandi. I would have preferred more about Thandi’s mother. She seemed like an interesting, likable character.

I gave the book three and one-half stars.

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Amanda L. Beachum

Stylistically unusual, intriguing

15 septembre 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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This is primarily a novel of grief, although it does a wonderful job of exploring race relations, particularly between women of color. Taking place across two continents, the book reads like an autobiography or a diary instead of a work of fiction. It's not told in a traditional style, which I found both intriguing and sometimes off-putting. It draws in real events, photos, charts, and more to illustrate points, and has been described as being told in a "stream of consciousness" style of writing. I read an article about the author and many of the events her fictional character Thandi experiences are based on her own life, such as the illness and loss of her mother while she was a college student. It's a compelling read and the author has a very unique voice.

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Happiestwhenreading

Timely book that covers many relevant themes to current events!

18 août 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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While my favorite parts of the book were the sections on her mother’s illness and death, this book explores many topics. It addresses racial issues that feel especially timely given the current events going on right now. I find it incredibly important to continue to read narratives written by people of color so that I can continue to explore and evolve in my own personal attitudes. It is my hope that diversity continues to push itself to the forefront in hopes that all of humanity can learn to embrace unity and love and peace. Zinzi Clemmons also writes brilliantly on feminism, motherhood, and marriage and divorce. These musings make it evident that Clemmons will have a long and brilliant career in literary fiction. She writes masterfully; she is so eloquent in her structure and sophistication.

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Jaz

My heart is full from what we lose

24 juillet 2017 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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Beautiful novel about loss, friendship & family. I started this book today and didn't stop until I was finished. Great read if you're looking for something you can emotionally connect with, it made me cry and laugh and smile. I already want to read it again.

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