But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on Jto find her teenage son Sonny missing. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. This suspenseful novel portrays a community-and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s.
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