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A review by bookwormmelissa
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
3.0
Thank you to Random House and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
This was a really unique book about a group of friends from Queens, NY. It's told in a collective narrative (we) with chapters like short essays, so the pages do turn fast. In telling the story this way, the author was able to show that an individual brown girl's experience does not tell the whole experience - I found the writing to be clever and pack a punch. However, it meant that it was really hard to connect with any of the individual characters, because you didn't know whose story you were following as the girls go through the NY school system into college (or not) and good jobs (or not). And while the title is "Brown Girls", the author speaks for all women of color, which felt strange. It was a good read, but not one I would pick up again.
This was a really unique book about a group of friends from Queens, NY. It's told in a collective narrative (we) with chapters like short essays, so the pages do turn fast. In telling the story this way, the author was able to show that an individual brown girl's experience does not tell the whole experience - I found the writing to be clever and pack a punch. However, it meant that it was really hard to connect with any of the individual characters, because you didn't know whose story you were following as the girls go through the NY school system into college (or not) and good jobs (or not). And while the title is "Brown Girls", the author speaks for all women of color, which felt strange. It was a good read, but not one I would pick up again.