Although this sudden revelation is likely to immediately panic readers, the narrator’s response is more emotionally ambiguous - it reads as if this disease is not a shocking revelation, but rather part of the many struggles she’s been dealing with forever. On top of everything, she is diagnosed with cancer and has to make a decision regarding her treatment. Despite having known how much of a difference privilege can make in one’s life, walking into a world vastly different from hers makes this reality especially tangible. She receives a promotion and is bombarded at the firm by comments of being a “diversity hire.” At the same time, she gets invited to her boyfriend’s parents’ garden-party and encounters the life of the white and rich like never before. The novel captures a critical period in her life where disruptive moments, both good and bad, come one after the other. “Assembly” is the story of its Black, British narrator, an Oxbridge graduate who works at a finance firm. I managed to fit Natasha Brown’s 112-page debut novel, “Assembly.” Don’t let the novella’s brevity deceive you, because those 112 pages were enough for Brown to convey a compelling story, disheartening yet relatable for far too many people. With the coat, my laptop, all the documents you have to carry as an international student and hand sanitizers, I didn’t have a lot of space left - but I had to have a book. I had fit a coat in the bag for the snowy weather that would welcome me once we landed. Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine.I boarded the 14-hour flight back home for spring break with just one backpack. A literary debut with flavours of Jordan Peele's Get Out' Bookseller, Editor's Choice 'Expertly crafted, remarkable, astonishing. 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 'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021 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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