A review by melissadeemcdaniel
Brass by Xhenet Aliu

5.0

With the opening pages of “Brass”, I fell in love with Elsie. This sassy teenager is saving her waitress wages in a change jar to buy a “wicked coupe” that is going to take her the heck out of town. But it is impossibly hard to be 18 and be the "most beautiful girl" a man has ever seen. Loving Elsie made the heartbreak of her late pregnancy all the harder to read. An then, of course, I fell in love with Luljeta…. Brass is a heartbreakingly lovely book. What an astounding start to 2018.