
Brown Girls (Paperback)
Daphne Palasi Andreades (author)Published: 16/02/2023

A lyrical and powerfully observed collective coming-of-age, Brown Girls follows a group of young women of colour navigating their way to adulthood in Queens, New York, armed with joy, yearning and an unquenchable thirst for life.
Brown Girls dives deep into the lives of a group of young women of colour growing up in Queens, New York. Here, streets echo with many languages, subways rumble above dollar stores and the briny scent of the ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Here, girls like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and many others, struggle to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture they come of age in. Here, they become friends for life. Or so they vow.
Brown Girls is a blazingly original, sweeping debut novel told by an unforgettable chorus of voices.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008478094
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 150 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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'Brown Girls achieves immediate lift-off [at] times, audaciously, it's as if she's talking about every brown girl alive during the past century, Fearless.' - The New York Times
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