A review by mmccombs
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

What an interesting concept! This is a character driven novel, though the character is a chorus of voices, brown girls who are friends from childhood. We follow their whole lives, which I felt was interesting and complex. In some ways it lacked depth for me and was quite repetitive, but the writing here is poetic and enchanting. The structure of this was very clever, it addresses both the universal experiences of brown women in the US in addition to the ways in which that experience is also incredibly diverse and varied. I think this will be one I stew on for a bit and may reassess with time.

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