Brown Girls: A Novel Written by Daphne Palasi Andreades

Read by Tashi Thomas

This vibrant novel, told in the collective we, translates perfectly to audio form, each chapter a poem, a spoken word song. Through the symphonic voices of a friend group of Brown girls growing up, sometimes leaving, sometimes returning to Queens, Andreades captures myriad truths of living as some shade of Brown, straddling the worlds of family and future, expectation and reality, celebration and struggle. Beautifully written, life affirming. —Melinda