What We Lose-我们失去了什么

作者:Clemmons Zinzi

书名：What We Lose《我们失去了什么》  

中文简介：Thandi，在宾夕法尼亚长大，但越来越想知道南非是否存在着自己的第二故乡。她潜心钻研，重新寻找自己的家乡，某种程度上这对她而言是一个摇晃的精神支柱，尤其是在母亲去世并且意识到她自己也即将成为母亲的时候。

英文简介：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.