A review by ebonyutley
Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree

1.0

During a dinner about a month ago, my friends and I discovered I had never read an Omar Tyree novel. I set about rectifying that with Flyy Girl since the cover says it’s an urban classic and all. Unfortunately, the appeal of this book missed me by about 25 years. I kept waiting for the character to grow up until I realized she was going to be a child the entire novel and the interaction with each boy was basically the exact same dialog over and over and over again. The indefatigable game playing and colorism lasts for over 400 pages! Maybe if I were from Philly or at the house parties in the 80s it would have been nostalgic for me, but I wasn’t, and it wasn’t. I was bored, decidedly not nostalgic for the 80s and 90s, and ready to read anything where the girls had more insightful things to say that I don’t know and I guess. Omar Tyree officially checked off the list.