Brown Girls

Brown Girls
Daphne Palasi Andreades
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NZ$ 37.99
Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 224pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
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9780008478056
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A blazingly original and fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New York ' Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book' s a gift' Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout ' An ode to girlhood' Raven Leilani, author of Luster If you really want to know, we are the colour of 7-Eleven root beer. Colour of the charcoal pencil our sisters use to rim their eyes. Colour of peanut butter. Brown Girls dives deep into the lives of a group of young women of colour growing up in Queens, New York. Here, streets echo with many languages, subways rumble above dollar stores and the briny scent of the ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Here, girls like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and many others, struggle to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture they come of age in. Here, they become friends for life. Or so they vow. In this bold debut told in a uniquely lyrical voice, Daphne Palasi Andreades paints a stunning collective portrait of the journey from girlhood to adulthood, set against a backdrop of race, class, and marginalisation in America today. Brown Girls is an unforgettable love letter to women of colour everywhere from a daring new writer. ' A masterful triumph by a brilliant new author with an original voice' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun ' An exhilarating novel' Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning
' Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book' s a gift - a smooth subway seat on a crowded Queens local bound to everywhere and offered to those people, places, and dreams that forever keep and feed us, because memory-like off-brand bodega cottage cheese - has no expiration date. This one' s a ride - watch the open doors' Paul Beatty, Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout' An acute study of those tender moments of becoming. An ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields' Raven Leilani, author of Luster' An exhilarating novel. It is alive with the complicated yet vast love of immigrant mothers, American daughters, and childhood friends. I treasure this book' s artistic daring, its pathos, and its marvellous playfulness' Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning' I swallowed this book and was swallowed by it in return. For those of us who were once teenage girls, it is an irresistible chorus of remembrances, a lyric ode to brown girlhood. I absolutely loved it' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here' Riveting, powerfully observed, and seething with raw, exuberant life, Brown Girls is an epic told in the register of the yearning, vivid experiences of its characters. It' s hard to think of another book with more spirit or a keener eye' Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun' Exhilarating . . . It is alive with the complicated yet vast love of immigrant mothers, American daughters, and childhood friends. I treasure this book' s artistic daring, its pathos, and its marvellous playfulness' Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning' A glorious anthem of a book, written effortlessly, ingeniously, in a vibrant choral voice. It sings, it aches, it shimmers; it leaps from the page with pure life. I loved it. ' Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies
Daphne Palasi Andreades was born and raised in Queens, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, among other honors. Brown Girls is her first novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008478056
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 224

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