Brown Girls

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Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This books a gift Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

An ode to girlhood Raven Leilani, author of Luster

A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New York.
If you really want to know, we are the colour of 7-Eleven root beer. Colour of the charcoal pencil our sisters use to rim their eyes. Colour of peanut butter.

Brown Girls dives deep into the lives of a group of young women of colour growing up in Queens, New York. Here, streets echo with many languages, subways rumble above dollar stores and the briny scent of the ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Here, girls like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and many others, struggle to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture they come of age in. Here, they become friends for life. Or so they vow.

In this bold debut told in a uniquely lyrical voice, Daphne Palasi Andreades paints a stunning collective portrait of the journey from girlhood to adulthood, set against a backdrop of race, class, and marginalisation in America today. Brown Girls is an unforgettable love letter to women of colour everywhere from a daring new writer.

Joyous, bittersweet, hilarious a coming of age story for us all Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown Baby

A song of celebration, of mourning, of rage, of fierce living Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days

If you liked LUSTER try BROWN GIRLS Sunday Times Style

Attracting huge amounts of buzz a lyrical, urgent voice ipaper, Ten best books to read in 2022

A cracker of a first novel Glamour

A sensation in the US Guardian

Transporting not to be missed Stylist

A daring debut fearless New York Times

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION 2022 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, GLAMOUR, STYLIST, INEWS, SUNDAY TIMES STYLE, LITERARY FRICTION PODCAST AND MORE.

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'Brown Girls achieves immediate lift-off [at] times, audaciously, its as if shes talking about every brown girl alive during the past century Fearless' New York Times

'Strikingly exuberant The book certainly has spiky, thought-provoking things to say but it is most memorable in its gorgeous depictions of friendship. It is also an incredibly moving meditation on growing up This gives a novel set in Queens a powerful universality Independent

Attracting huge amounts of buzz a fierce examination of race, class and marginalisation in America today ipaper

Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission This book is a gift Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

Transporting and energising its not to be missed Stylist

Glorious While there is much that many brown girls will relate toincluding experiences that feel stolen straight from my memoriesAndreades succeeds in making the stories feel specific beyond a singular experience breadth, depth and enormous richness New York Times Book Review

An acute study of those tender moments of becoming. An ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Brown Girls is filled with an unforgettable cast of characters Precise and powerful, this is a coming-of-age story for us all Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown Baby

'A heady, poetic exploration of growing up It left me speechless' Huma Qureshi, author of Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love

Brown Girls is a songof celebration, of mourning, of rage, of fierce living Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days

Seething with raw, exuberant life It's hard to think of another book with more spirit or a keener eye Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun

Author Bio

Daphne Palasi Andreades was born and raised in Queens, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, among other honors. Brown Girls is her first novel.