Those Bones Are Not My Child

Written over a span of twelve years and edited by Toni Morrison who calls<strong>Those Bones Are Not My Child</strong> the authors magnum opus Bambaras last nov... » 

Written over a span of twelve years and edited by Toni Morrison who callsThose Bones Are Not My Child the authors magnum opus Bambaras last novelleaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity Toni Cade Bambararenders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its firstblack mayor in 1980 Atlanta projected an image of political progressivenessand prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981 more than forty blackchildren were kidnapped sexually assaulted and brutally murdered throughoutThe City Too Busy to Hate.A separated mother of three holding down several jobs Zala Spencer has managedto survive on the margins of a flourishing economy until she awakens themorning of Sunday July 20 1980 to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As thehours turn into days Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases ofmissing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growingincreasingly disillusioned with the authorities who respond to Sonnysdisappearance with cold indifference Zala and her estranged husband embark ona desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terrorwe watch a city roiling with political racial and class tensions. «