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Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta’s booming economy when she awakens one summer’s morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. Edited by Toni Morrison as part of Bambara’s final novel, ‘Those Bones Are Not My Child’, this slim masterpiece leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare.

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At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara’s powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta’s missing children.

Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the margins of Atlanta’s booming economy when she awakens one summer’s morning in 1980 to find her teenage son, Sonny, has disappeared. As she takes to the streets to track down what happened to him, Zala is drawn into the nightmare of a city stalked by fear.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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Weight 88 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 1 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

112
Language

English
Edition

Paperback original
Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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