![]() ![]() However, it seems my reading taste has changed a lot after I started blogging and I could actually see, even appreciate, what the author was trying to achieve. If I’d read this some years ago I might have shaken my head and rolled my eyes whilst uttering tsk, tsk. The story is written in a stream-of consciousness style, which furthermore has an extremely fragmentary form. But whereas Girl, Woman, Other is filled with hope and optimism, Assembly is quite the opposite. ![]() I see the similarity, at least on the surface. The narrator has been compared to one of the characters in Bernardine Evaristo’s prize winning Girl, Woman, Other. ![]() Can a black woman be successful in a corporate world, dominated by white males or can she find acceptance in her partners old-money, privileged family and still stay true to who she is? In the heart of it all is the question of assimilation. Instead it’s a story about racism, micro aggression, being stereotyped and never fitting in. The narrator is a young black British woman, who on paper seems to have it all: A successful career, an interesting life, a potential upcoming engagement. So as you might gather, I had high hopes for Assembly. On the other hand, I’ve listened to more than 40 audiobooks. This is the first book I’ve read in 2021. Besides from being the most expensive book (per page), I’ve bought in 2021, it’s also the first book I’ve read in 2021. After lengthy debates with myself, whether to pay £8 for an eBook just over 100 pages, I jumped on the bandwagon as well. Assembly seems to be everywhere these days. ![]()
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