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What We Lose: A Novel Audiobook, by Zinzi Clemmons Play Audiobook Sample

What We Lose: A Novel Audiobook

What We Lose: A Novel Audiobook, by Zinzi Clemmons Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Nicole Lewis Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781524779429

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

118

Longest Chapter Length:

08:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

01:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, BuzzfeedSan Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The RootHarper’s Bazaar, PasteBustleKirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, LitHub, New York Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Bust “The debut novel of the year.” Vogue “Like so many stories of the black diaspora, What We Lose is an examination of haunting.” —Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker “Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability and shimmering anger.” —Nicole Dennis-Benn, O, the Oprah Magazine “Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home.” —Buzzfeed “Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.” —Essence From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country 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.

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“This unusual audiobook is well performed by Nicole Lewis, whose voice shifts appropriately from pragmatic to passionate, keeping the listener engaged…Thanks to Lewis’ skill and timing, one can largely follow the story despite the shifts.”

— AudioFile

Awards

  • Oprah’s Book Club Selection of Compulsively Readable Novels
  • Elle Magazine Pick of Best Books of 2017 So Far
  • Redbook Magazine Pick for Summer Reading
  • Cosmopolitan Pick of Books to Read This Summer
  • Huffington Post Pick of Summer Reads
  • Essence Magazine Pick
  • Houston Chronicle Pick
  • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Fiction

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About Nicole Lewis

Nicole Lewis is a voice artist and Earphones Award–winning narrator.