Never be British enough for a country that operates an ongoing hostile environment, other than a 'tokenism' that rewards the 'right kind' of diversity. justice and equality, to lay bare the unpalatable truths that being black will ensure that you will never be accepted. In a stream of consciousness as she assembles the pieces of her that have allowed her to ascend, she removes the fig leaf of illusion used to promote a narrative of British diversity, tolerance. At the point of arriving at his parents anniversary party on their country estate, she should be happy, instead she is exhausted and perhaps for the first time in her life, given her health issues, she feels some sense of agency and power as she considers whether this marriage is one compromise too far. She has done all that is expected of her to ascend to the heights of an investment bank, and to cap it all, is on the cusp of achievement, entry into the highest social strata of the establishment, marrying her white boyfriend with his old money and privilege. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away.This is a stunning literary debut that takes no prisoners from Natasha Brown, an erudite, succinct, and incisive forensic examination of race, British history, colonialism, slavery, capitalism, misogyny, and the never ending cuts of everyday micro-aggressions experienced by an unnamed black woman of Jamaican heritage from a working class background. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers.And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life.
At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself.
She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. Go to college, get an education, start a career.
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