Assembly

Name: Assembly
Author: Natasha Brown
ISBN: 9780241992678

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Assembly was shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2022, the Goldsmiths Prize 2021, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022, the Books Are My Bag Fiction Award 2021, and the Betty Trask Prize 2022, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022. Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?

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