{"product_id":"2940169092240","title":"What We Lose: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The debut novel of the year.\" \u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A richly volatile study of grief, wonderment and love.\" \u003cb\u003eamp;mdash;Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\" amp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eamp;mdash;Essence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of ageamp;mdash;a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 anchoramp;mdash;someone, or something, to love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRedbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLA Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e's Books to Read This Summer\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113923264752,"sku":"2940169092240","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169092240_p0.jpg?v=1763760904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169092240","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}