Brown girls
Andreades, Daphne Palasi2022
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If you really want to know, we are the colour of 7-Eleven root beer. Colour of the charcoal pencil our sisters use to rim their eyes. Colour of our mother's darkest thread, which she loops through the needle. Colour of peanut butter.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. In this debut, Daphne Palasi Andreades paints a stunning collective portrait of the journey from girlhood to adulthood, set against a backdrop of race, class, and marginalisation in America today.
Main title:
Brown girls / Daphne Palasi Andreades.
Author:
Andreades, Daphne Palasi, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008478056 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Related title:
Brown Girls [electronic resource]
Subject:
BRN:
2256982
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woburn Sands Library | Adult fiction | Available |