5/24/2023 0 Comments Assembly by natasha brown![]() ![]() We are thrown into the life of an unnamed, young black woman who works at high-pressure blue-chip company. It’s difficult to slot this book into one category it reads like a cross between poetry and memoir, but it’s listed as fiction (most likely with a dash of realism because I have no doubt Brown also experienced many of these things). But what if that mark of success isn’t what everyone is striving for, it’s simply what we are told to strive for? ![]() The life of this particular woman is marked with the challenges she faces as a black woman in a largely male, white sector of high finance, and the success she has achieved in the traditional sense of the word. Although Assembly by Natasha Brown doesn’t include Covid, the thoughts that cross the protagonist’s mind are certainly relatable as we all sit at home and ponder LIFE. It touches upon race, class, gender, and the existential dread that millennials in particular seem to dwell upon, (what does it all mean? etc.) made even worse by the pandemic. This slim little novel piqued my interest when I saw a short description of it in a catalogue. ![]()
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