Those Bones Are Not My Child

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Those Bones Are Not My Child

A Novel

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Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity, Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." A separated mother of three holding down several jobs, Zala Spencer has managed to survive on the margins of a flourishing economy until she awakens the morning of Sunday, July 20, 1980, to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As the hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just 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 a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Publisher
Vintage
Language
English
Pages
688

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Cover of: Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child
2021, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child
2021, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
E-book in English
Cover of: Those Bones Are Not My Child
Those Bones Are Not My Child: A Novel
October 24, 2000, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: Those bones are not my child
Those bones are not my child
1999, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Those bones are not my child
Those bones are not my child
1999, Vintage
in English

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
688
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7701117M
ISBN 10
0679774084
ISBN 13
9780679774082
Library Thing
83920
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1289121

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