The Boston Globe, October 17th, 1999
THOSE BONES ARE NOT MY CHILD By Toni Cade Bambara. Pantheon. 688 pp. $27.50. James A. Miller is professor of English and American studies and director of the Africana Studies Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Every parent's worst nightmare, the chilling words in the title of Toni Cade Bambara's riveting, posthumous novel are spoken by two different speakers in two different contexts. Both times, though, they convey not only the horror and finality of loss, but the specific terror confronted by the parents swept up in the labyrinthine world of the Atlanta child murders...
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