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A review by maggiebook
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
4.0
I would sum up this book with three words, moving, raw and beautiful.
The book is written in short chapters, almost paragraphs so there isn't a lot of excess to the book. The story follows the narrator Thandi an American girl born to a South African mother and a NY father. She tells of her life going to school, being part of a family from two different cultures and the death of her mother and its impact on her. I liked that she doesn't try to make the reader like her. She says what comes to mind and shows all the bad messy stuff without apology. The book does seem like she wrote down things as they came into her mind which may be distracting for some readers but I think it fits the randomness of your thought process that comes with losing someone.
Although What We Lose is fictional, the character shares many similarities to the author which makes you feel you are reading an autobiography.
The book is written in short chapters, almost paragraphs so there isn't a lot of excess to the book. The story follows the narrator Thandi an American girl born to a South African mother and a NY father. She tells of her life going to school, being part of a family from two different cultures and the death of her mother and its impact on her. I liked that she doesn't try to make the reader like her. She says what comes to mind and shows all the bad messy stuff without apology. The book does seem like she wrote down things as they came into her mind which may be distracting for some readers but I think it fits the randomness of your thought process that comes with losing someone.
Although What We Lose is fictional, the character shares many similarities to the author which makes you feel you are reading an autobiography.