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Bambara, Toni Cade, author.

Those bones are not my child / Toni Cade Bambara. - London : Vintage, 2021. - 676 pages : maps ; 20 cm. - Vintage classics. . - Vintage classics (London, England) .

Originally published: United States : Pantheon, 1999.

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 uneasy hours turn into desperate days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on an epic search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.

ISBN: 9781784877293 1784877298 9781473591783 1473591783

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
African American children--Crimes against--Georgia--Atlanta--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54