![]() ![]() 'Bold and original, with a cool intelligence, and so very truthful about the colonialist structure of British society' Diana Evans ![]() As breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true' Olivia Sudjic Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine. A literary debut with flavours of Jordan Peele's Get Out' Bookseller, Editor's Choice ' Expertly crafted, remarkable, astonishing. You'll read it in one sitting' Sunday Times Style 'One of the most talked-about debuts of the year. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?Īssembly is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. ![]() 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 Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. A stunning new writer' Bernardine EvaristoĬome of age in the credit crunch. '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 ![]() ' Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021 ![]()
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