Book Review: Brown Girls - a singular story of minority life in 1990s New York
Daphne Palasi Andreades’s beguiling debut novel examines the confusion at the heart of the American Dream
Some art is so absorbing, it turns you momentarily into somebody else. When I listen to Taylor Swift, I might be a plaid shirt-wearing Pennsylvanian who went to something called prep school. When the final number in Dirty Dancing comes on, I could be a lithe Jennifer Grey ready to make that impossible lift.
Readers of Daphne Palasi Andreades’s debut novel Brown Girls will likewise find themselves sinking into the narrator’s mind. No matter that ...
