Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine. A literary debut with flavours of Jordan Peele's Get Out' Bookseller, Editor's Choice ' Expertly crafted, remarkable, astonishing. Natasha Brown Assembly Hardcover Septemby Natasha Brown (Author) 1,182 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. You'll read it in one sitting' Sunday Times Style 'One of the most talked-about debuts of the year. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. A stunning new writer' Bernardine EvaristoĬome of age in the credit crunch. 'I'm full of the hope, on reading it, that this is the kind of book that doesn't just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible' Ali Smith 'Virtuosic, exquisite, achingly unique' Guardian She was a 2019 London Writers Award recipient and a 2022 Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchesters Centre for New Writing.
It reads like poetry and was an enjoyable 100 pages which I consumed in a couple of short sittings. TL DR short, profound, gritty, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021 A summary of Assembly, a short contemporary fiction by Natasha Brown. LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021
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