Brown Girls (Andreades Daphne Palasi)(Paperback) - diskuze

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 - LONGLISTED 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
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