What We Lose, Zinzi Clemmons & Weinger Ponzichter Red

For those of you who’ve been following along with these pairings for the past year, you may have noticed certain threads pulling throughout the selections: some loud, some quiet, or in the case of this month’s novel What We Lose, direct.

I don’t often realize what I am looking for when reading until much later, or perhaps never as directly as I think I s…