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What We Lose Clemmons to authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Meghan O’Rourke, and Claudia Rankine. Clemmons cites Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" as a significant influence for "What We Lose". The novel received overwhelmingly positive reviews. "The New York Times" review said, "The book’s distinctive form and voice give it an unusual capacity to show how individuals connect deep feeling to broad political understanding — an experience too rarely rendered in fiction." "The Guardian" called "a debut of haunting fragments". "The Telegraph" praised it as an "Intelligently and impressively conceived, and beautifully told" novel. What We Lose What We Lose is the debut