Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara

Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.

Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search.

As hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout 'The City Too Busy to Hate.' Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on Jto find her teenage son Sonny missing. The other children of the group were Sugar, Flyboy, Fat Butt, Junebug, Q.T., Rosie Giraffe, and Mercedes. The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara is a story about a group of seven kids and is told in the point of view of Sylvia, one of the children that seems to be a leader of the group. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. Analysis Of The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. This suspenseful novel portrays a community-and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Those Bones Are Not My Child E-Kitap Açıklaması

Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara