5/19/2023 0 Comments Brown natasha assembly 2019![]() ![]() This, unnamed, heroine takes a different and, yes, I suppose shocking, strategy to give in to the exhaustion. ![]() There are great moments in it, the reader has to work for information a lot of the time and that got me confused, but it does have important things to say about micro- and macroaggressions and how exhausted Black women are by their code-switching, “Work twice as hard” lives (this was a theme in “ The Other Black Girl,” of course, too). There were flashes of “ Queenie” in her workplace life and the micro-aggressions and work best friends but that was way more straightforward to read (and sorry to compare this only to books by other Black authors – looks like those are the group of modern novels I seem to be reading at the moment!). I could compare it to “ Open Water” in the sort of floaty and slightly confusing narrative (although it had a more standard first-person narrator). ![]() It was episodic and full of flashbacks and bits of thoughts. I think I’m not adept enough with literary criticism or getting to grips with the modern novel. ![]() I just struggled to get to grips with this. It’s had a lot of buzz about it, and the description of a young Black woman attending a big posh White garden party and deciding she had had Enough appealed to me – in fact it was touted as shocking, which worried me a bit. It’s quite a quick review for Assembly here, which I downloaded on 01 April this year. ![]()
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