A review by rachel_from_avid_bookshop
Brass by Xhenet Aliu

5.0

The American Dream exists but is on its last breath in Aliu’s debut novel BRASS. There’s not much left in Waterbury, Connecticut after the brass factories left. There certainly aren’t fathers-for Elise whose dead-end waitress job rewards her with single-parent status or for her daughter Luljeta, haunted by the father who left seventeen years before. Aliu is a talented storyteller whose prose is beautiful and brusque, evoking the raw ache of want that lingers in each character.