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Brown Girls

A Novel

By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. “An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster FINALIST: The New American Voices Award, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, The New American Voices Award, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . . Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and countless others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow. Exuberant and wild, together they roam The City That Never Sleeps, sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, yearn for crushes who pay them no mind—and break the hearts of those who do—all while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be obedient daughters. But as they age, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots. A blazingly original debut novel told by a chorus of unforgettable voices, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, adulthood, and beyond, and is a striking exploration of female friendship, a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world today. For even as the conflicting desires of ambition and loyalty, freedom and commitment, adventure and stability risk dividing them, it is to one another—and to Queens—that the girls ultimately return.

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Brown Girls

A Novel

By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

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Brown Girls

A Novel

By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. “An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster FINALIST FOR THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . . Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and countless others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow. Exuberant and wild, together they roam The City That Never Sleeps, sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, yearn for crushes who pay them no mind—and break the hearts of those who do—all while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be obedient daughters. But as they age, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots. A blazingly original debut novel told by a chorus of unforgettable voices, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, adulthood, and beyond, and is a striking exploration of female friendship, a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world today. For even as the conflicting desires of ambition and loyalty, freedom and commitment, adventure and stability risk dividing them, it is to one another—and to Queens—that the girls ultimately return.

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0593243420

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Brown Girls

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By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

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Brown Girls

Roman

By: Daphne Palasi Andreades

»Als würde sie über jedes Brown Girl sprechen, das im letzten Jahrhundert gelebt hat... Furchtlos!« The New York Times »Wenn ihr es genau wissen wollt, hat unsere Haut die Farbe von 7-Eleven-Root-Beer. Die Farbe vom Sand am Rockaway Beach, von dem wir Blasen an den Fußsohlen bekommen. Die Farbe der Kajalstifte, mit denen unsere Schwestern ihre Augen umranden. Die Farbe von Erdnussbutter.« Queens, New York. Hier kämpft eine Gruppe von Mädchen darum, die Migrationsgeschichten ihrer Familie mit der amerikanischen Kultur in Einklang zu bringen. Rastlos durchstreifen sie die Stadt, die niemals schläft, singen aus voller Kehle Mariah Carey, sehnen sich nach Jungs, die unerreichbar sind, und brechen den erreichbaren die Herzen. Eins ist für sie klar: Sie wollen für immer Freundinnen bleiben. Doch das Älterwerden macht auch vor ihnen keinen Halt und all die neuen Wünsche und Träume stellen die Freundschaft vor ungeahnte Herausforderungen. In entwaffnend lyrischer Sprache zeichnet »Brown Girls« ein kollektives Porträt vom Erwachsenwerden und weiblicher Freundschaft vor dem Hintergrund von Rassismus, Klassenzugehörigkeit und Ausgrenzung im gegenwärtigen Amerika.

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