Description
In late-1970s and early-1980s Atlanta, Marzala “Zala” Spencer’s world fractures when her son Sonny disappears, thrusting her into a desperate search that quickly becomes a community-wide reckoning. As other families share their own losses, the novel exposes how fear, grief, and anger collide with institutions that too often fail Black children—and the people trying to protect them. Told with Toni Cade Bambara’s sharp emotional intelligence and incisive, character-driven intensity, the story follows Zala’s struggle for truth as hope and suspicion wrestle for control. Ultimately, the book confronts the unsettling aftermath of justice pursued in public, leaving readers to question what really happened, who is believed, and what it costs to keep loving in the face of systemic violence.
Available Editions
ebook
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2009
689 pages
ISBN: 9780307560612
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Details
First Published
1999
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara.