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The assembly natasha brown5/27/2023 But Assembly’s brevity only attests to Brown’s copious talent, as she says in about a hundred pages what most writers couldn’t say in a thousand. Just when I think the boundaries of fiction can’t be pushed further Natasha Brown took the novel to new dimensions. Assembly is a disarmingly short book, much like Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, which Brown cites at the end of her novel as an influence. It’s a unique book which defies any definition. Assembly is plainly a story, yet there’s references to non-fiction works. I also liked how Natasha Brown dances between the line of fiction and information. Some details crop up later in the book, which makes it readable. One the surface this may seem like a jumbled mess but, in it’s own way the story develops and the themes mentioned above emerge. All told in a stream of conscious manner and a arranged in a cut up way – although the plot development is somewhat linear. In the process she muses on race, social class, the racism towards the black population in Britain, class struggles and sexism in the workplace. I am amazed at how, in a brief 100 pages Natasha Brown manages to fuse many topics in such an innovative manner.Ī banker is preparing to go to her boyfriend’s garden party. I am not exaggerating when I say that Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a total headrush. There are some books which just redefine fiction.
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