EPISODE · Jul 11, 2017 · 5 MIN
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
from Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Rosa Murazik
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Lose Author: Zinzi Clemmons Narrator: Nicole Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Thandi 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Lose Author: Zinzi Clemmons Narrator: Nicole Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Thandi 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.
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