Assembly by Natasha Brown
Today’s book is author Natasha Brown’s first novel. It caused quite a stir in the literary world when it was published in 2019.
The book is set in the late summer of 2019. The blurb on the back cover of the novel reads:
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of GoHome 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.
This slim experimental novel is about the experience of overt sexual harassment and latent racism of a young, successful, black woman working in the financial sector, and its effect on her life.
Music played:
Nine to Five sung by Dolly Parton, from the soundtrack of the film of the same name. It’s all about the perils of the work environment for women.
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