'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison
Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy when she awakens one summer's morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.
Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who called Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.
| ISBN: | 9781784877293 |
| Publication date: | 7th October 2021 |
| Author: | Toni Cade Bambara |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 672 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Politics Narrative theme: Social issues Sagas Historical Fiction |
'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison
Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta's booming economy when she awakens one summer's morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.
Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who called Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.
Those Bones Are Not My Child features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Social issues, Sagas, Historical Fiction
Those Bones Are Not My Child is available in Paperback, Ebook
Those Bones Are Not My Child was written by Toni Cade Bambara and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Those Bones Are Not My Child has 672 pages
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