Clemmons is the author of WHAT WE LOSE, a powerful and innovative debut novel that questions the nature of identity, grief, and love through the eyes of a young woman who loses her mother to cancer.
Clemmons was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and the novel was named one of the best books of 2017 by
Vogue
,
AV Club
, NPR,
ELLE
,
Harper’s Bazaar
,
Esquire
,
Electric Literature
,
Buzzfeed
, and more.
“Stark prose . . . The book’s distinctive form and voice give it an unusual capacity to show how individuals connect deep feeling to broad political understanding—an experience too rarely rendered in fiction.”
—New York Times Book Review
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