THOSE BONES ARE NOT MY CHILD
Toni Cade Bambara
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'Those Bones Are Not My Child is a big book, as large as the events that took place, with the breadth of Invisible Man, the depth of Their Eyes Were Watching God and the humanity of Crime and Punishment'
Toni Morrison
It was called 'the city to busy to hate', but in the early 1980s more than forty black children were murdered in Atlanta, their bodies found strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted. Toni Cade Bambara was living in Atlanta at the time, and this extraordinary novel, published posthumously, is the result of twelve years of first-hand research, as she delved into the murders and the world in which they occurred.
The narrative focuses on one black family living on the margin of a seemingly prosperous city, whose son goes missing just as the child abductions are beginning to be reported. As the distraught, already estranged parents search frantically for their son, the story moves through the full spectrum of Atlanta's political, social and cultural life, illuminating the complex issues of race and class that bedevilled the city.
Suspenseful, richly dramatic, deeply emotional, this is an epic work of fiction.
Toni Cade Bambara
is the author of two short story collections, Gorilla, My Love and The Sea Birds Are Still Alive; a novel, The Salt Eaters; and a collection of fiction, essays, and conversations, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions. She is also a noted documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, and her work includes the documentaries The Bombing of Osage Avenue and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. Toni Cade Bambara died in 1995.
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