Those Bones Are Not My Child (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Toni Cade Bambara
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Children, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Race, Murder or homicide, 1980’s, Georgia
- Locales: Atlanta, GA
Published posthumously and edited by her friend, writer Toni Morrison, Those Bones Are Not My Child is a fictional account of the actual epidemic of child killings that plagued residents of the city of Atlanta in the early 1980's. The plot of this historical novel is based on events surrounding the murders of those forty children by a serial killer or killers and the resultant investigation.
The central characters, Zala Spencer and Nathaniel (Spence) Spencer, are estranged when they learn that the first of their three children, Sonny, is missing and presumed a victim of...
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