A review by jacki_f
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

4.0

This is a novel that reads like non-fiction. It feels so real that it's hard to believe it isn't. It's about a woman named Thandi, who is half South African and half American. She is light skinned and always feels like she doesn't quite belong. It's a book about race, about grief (she loses her mother to cancer) and about relationships. It moves around in time and incorporates quotes and statistics. Occasionally I got a little confused about where we were but it was never for long.

What amazed me about this book was the poignant observations and how real and true it felt.