BCB Brown Girls

Brown Girls : A Novel 
Daphne Palasi Andreades
9780593243442
Trade Paperback
Fiction / Literary / Filipinx / AAPI

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Zakiya Dalila Harris for Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Chicago Review of Books, Nylon, Ms. magazine, PopSugar, The Rumpus, The Millions, Electric Lit

Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow.
 
Exuberant and wild, they sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs and roam the streets of The City That Never Sleeps, all the while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be dutiful daughters, obedient young women. As they age, however, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, drawn to the allure of other skylines, careers, and lovers.
 
In musical, evocative prose, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, motherhood, and beyond. It is an account of the forces that bind friends to one another, their families, and communities. For even as the dueling forces of ambition and loyalty, freedom and marriage, reinvention and stability threaten to divide them, it is to each other—and to Queens—that the girls ultimately return.