Assembly - Paperback

Name: Assembly - Paperback
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9780316268363
Price: 15.99 USD
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by Natasha Brown

$15.99

Book Overview

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships--until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going.

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. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?

Assembly is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers.And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away.

ISBN	9780316268363
Author	Natasha Brown
Publisher	Back Bay Books
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	September 2022
Language	ENG- English
Pages	112
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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