‘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

• A beautiful, original and haunting novel – a universal story of human experience told in a new and fresh way • The heart-rending grappling with grief will appeal to fans of Grief is the Thing With Feathers (88kTCM) and H is for Hawk (264kTCM) • Success of The Good Immigrant (14k hardbacks TCM) and Claudia Rankine’s poetry book Citizen (7K TCM) are testament to a current hunger for books about race Competition: H Is For Hawk; Grief Is The Thing With Feathers; I Love Dick; Between The World And Me; Lonely City; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; H Is For Hawk; White Teeth;. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;Arundhati Roy; Rachel Cusk; Nikesh Shukla; Aminatta Forna; Niven Govinden; Colson Whitehead; Helen Macdonald; Max Porter; Han Kang; Chris Kraus; Ta-Nehisi Coates; Olivia Laing; Claudia Rankine; Deborah Levy; Maggie Nelson; Eimear McBride; Andrea Levy; Zadie Smith; Monica Ali;