A review by trapwomanistcyborgwitch
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

5.0

What a wonderful book. A powerful, beautiful, lyrical, imaginative, poetic book about the lives of immigrant brown girls living in Queens, NY. This coming of age story gave me major feels because I grew up singing all the songs, experienced some of the same sad experiences in the book. The girls in this book are a beautiful, complicated mess just like me. It was wonderful to read and see representation of myself. The book also discussed misogyny/misogynoir, microagresssions, colonialism, and imperialism…all the sacrifices, horror, wonderful times of living in the US. A literal timeline up until the current time. Her writing reminded me of Diane McKinney-Whetstone l. I loved it. Five Stars for sure. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.