What We Lose To all the poetry lovers

To all the poetry lovers out there

and HE’S going to release The Spirit and the power of Elijah

and start investing in your biggest asset—you

side by side with a positive message that will make girls cheer

and optimism with an authenticity that will resonate with readers young and old

What We Lose To all the poetry loversRaised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mothers childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchorsomeone, or something, to love. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandis life unfold, from