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City of Torment |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: John Lowe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 3,441 Words, 22,027 Characters |
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THOSE BONES ARE NOT MY CHILD
Toni Cade Bambara
New York: Pantheon, 1999
676 pp., $27.50
The late Toni Cade Bambara was ever a fighter, and before her heroic battle with cancer ended in 1995, she won her parallel struggle to finish a draft of what she hoped would be her magnum opus. Those Bones Are Not My Child is an exhaustively researched but fictional treatment of the Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early '80s, a traumatic era she experienced firsthand as an Atlanta activist and educator. The book opens on July 20, 1980, when Sonny Spencer, a twelve-year-old black boy, suddenly disappears. His mother Marzala's growing fear that he has been abducted or murdered by the killer(s) at large drives the narrative, and for the rest of the book, the Spencers' search for their so...
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...prominence, and although Bambara's earlier work The Salt Eaters has an enthusiastic critical following, the novel is difficult, experimental, and definitely an acquired taste. Perhaps now, in her magnificent call for justice for the dead and missing children of Atlanta, Bambara will achieve just consideration herself, as a magnificently poetic, fiery, yet healing narrator of the human spirit.
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