What We Lose

`The debut novel of the year ... visceral, cerebral, provocative, elegiac. One can't help but think of Clemmons as in the running to be the next-generation Claudia Rankine' Vogue

`Luminescent' Independent

`A lovely little headrush of a novel ... if you enjoyed Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing then try this' Sunday Times Style

`Bracingly clear-eyed ... the tension between her steady prose and turbulent emotions is beautifully sustained' Daily Mail

`Highly original. Zinzi Clemmons deftly explores grief, sex and identity' Elle

`Concise and powerful. This original and challenging debut is a must-read for fans of literary fiction and memoir' Bookriot

`Penetratingly good and written in vivid still life, What We Lose reads like a guided tour through a melancholic Van Gogh exhibit - wonderfully chromatic, transfixing and bursting with emotion. Zinzi Clemmons's debut novel signals the emergence of a voice that refuses to be ignored' Paul Beatty

`What We Lose navigates the many registers of grief, love and injustice . . . acutely moving' Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland

'I loved this beautiful, honest and entrancing meditation on love, loss and the relationships that enrich and complicate our lives' Bernardine Evaristo