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Assembly
[Paperback - 2022]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780241992661 | Pages: 112
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021

Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent Observer, Best Debuts of 2021

Subtle, elegant, scorching Vogue

Virtuosic, exquisite, achingly unique Guardian

I m full of the hope, on reading it, that this is the kind of book that doesn t just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible Ali Smith

Exquisite, daring, utterly captivating. A stunning new writer Bernardine Evaristo

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?

One of the most talked-about debuts of the year . . . You ll read it in one sitting Sunday Times Style

Expertly crafted, remarkable, astonishing... A literary debut with flavours of Jordan Peele s Get Out Bookseller, Editor s Choice

Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine...As breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true Olivia Sudjic

Bold and original, with a cool intelligence, and so very truthful about the colonialist structure of British society Diana Evans

This marvel of a novel manages to say all there is to say about Britain today Sabrina Mahfouz

Natasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category.

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