She ended up in a city job with all its typical issues. Her parents met at college in America (“we’re all big readers and talkers”), and her father encouraged her to take up the subject at university, where she was particularly delighted by pure mathematics, thought to be one of the hardest fields of human knowledge, and which Brown, with typical understatement, describes as “not having much of a real-world application”.īrown and her friends graduated in the “post-2008 world – you didn’t feel like you could be all that fussy”. She joins a select group of authors – David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon among them – to have studied mathematics. Read 11 of 2023.Brown grew up in London and was a big reader as a child, spending summers at her grandparents’ and dawdling over their huge bookshelf.

Translated from the Spanish by Sean Manning Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha It is a book that makes you question, rethink, unlearn, learn, and figure what is going on in your sheltered, bubble of a world. Put your head down and work hard, till you don’t want to do that anymore.Īssembly is about the choices we make, the situations we are bound by, the decisions made for us basis the colour of the skin, and how sometimes it is all about regaining your agency.Īssembly is all of this and so much more. It says what it has to say in less than 100 pages and does a damn good job of it.Īssembly is about inequalities and about how one is told to live throughout their life – by climbing the social ladder. A young black British woman living day to day surrounded by privileged people – at work and further into her boyfriend’s world of white.Īssembly is about disease and how choosing not to do anything about it is also a sign of protest, given the times we live in.Īssembly is about the number of ways in which racism cripples a person – takes the very soul out of the body, and all you have is second-guessing, withered memories, and exhaustion.Īssembly is potent. It aims to destroy stereotypes, beliefs, the perceptions we hold, and how we conduct ourselves, sometimes with masks we wear.Īssembly is about a young woman who is struggling and navigating in a world of racism and differentiation. It tells you what you think, feel, and where you stand about people who are different than you.Īssembly is candid, it is raw, its prose is direct and scathing. Genre: Novella, Contemporary Fiction Pages: 112Īssembly is a short book that will leave you gasping for breath.Īssembly is a book that shows you the mirror. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company ISBN: 978-0316268264

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