Bound By Loss: grief reading circle | July

What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

Theme: Ambiguous Loss, Identity, and Diasporic Grief
📅 Circle Date: July 17

July's book circle invites us into a poetic, fragmented, and deeply personal story: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons. Told through memory, image, and reflection, this novel weaves the narrator’s grief over her mother’s death with questions of racial identity, diasporic belonging, and the haunting silence of things unspoken.

It’s a powerful book for anyone navigating layered loss — the kind that isn’t always easy to name, but still shapes who we are.

In our gathering, we’ll explore how identity shifts in the wake of loss, how cultural silences shape grief, and how fragmentation might actually be a kind of truth-telling. This one is rich for both heart and intellect.

🌀 Mini Practice: Map your grief lineage.
Try sketching or writing out a “map” of who and what lives inside your grief story — names, places, roles, ancestors, ruptures, even things unsaid. What remains? What’s gone? What still echoes?

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