Dalloway meets Claudia Rankine's Citizen.as breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true.”-Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Asylum RoadĪvailable Septemfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown & Company. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?Īssembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As I write this review I realize the book sounds incredibly depressing, but I never felt the way when reading it. The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. 69 So much of this woman’s life is about how she compares the standard of whiteness, she can never be unique, or truly herself. Go to college, get an education, start a career.
Brown's gaze is piercing."-Avni Doshi, author of Burnt SugarĬome of age in the credit crunch. ASSEMBLY BY NATASHA BROWN BOOK REVIEW KDBooks 6.43K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K views 1 year ago Assembly by Natasha Brown is coined as the Modern Mrs Dalloway, but her critic and interrogation.
“A quiet, measured call to revolution…This is the kind of book that doesn’t just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible.”-Ali Smith, author of Summer A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)
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