With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?Īssembly is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. 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 college, get an education, start a career. But unlike the Virginia Woolf classic, this novel is about a woman who is about to burn an oppressive system to the ground - even if. The kind of book that doesn't just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible.-Ali Smith, author of SummerĬome of age in the credit crunch. Dalloway in Natasha Brown's searing Assembly, which is narrated by an unnamed Black woman as she prepares to spend the day at her boyfriend's parents' estate in the English countryside. A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from a stunning new writer.
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