Brown Girls

𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚

Thank you Random House for this gifted copy.

Last year my goal was to read a debut book each month, and I just loved how many new authors I discuss by doing this. Therefore, I’m continuing this goal for 2022.

I’m so excited to jump into Daphne

Palasi Andreades’s debut novel 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙨. This looks like such a moving coming of age YA story.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . .

Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and countless others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow.

Exuberant and wild, together they roam The City That Never Sleeps, sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, yearn for crushes who pay them no mind—and break the hearts of those who do—all while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be obedient daughters. But as they age, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots.

💬𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐘𝐀 (𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭) 𝐥𝐢𝐭?