Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novelThose Bones Are Not My Child is a staggering achievement, a major work of American fiction: the novel that Toni Cade Bambara was working on at the time of her death in 1995 a story that puts us at the center of the nightmare of the Atlanta child murders. It was called "The City Too Busy To Hate," but two decades ago more than forty black children were murdered there with grim determination, their bodies found in ditches, on riverbanks strangled,