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READ [PDF] Brown Girls: A Novel | NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “ boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York— a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. “ An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.” — Raven Leilani, author of LusterFINALIST: The New American Voices Award, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, The New American Voices Award, The Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus ReviewsIf you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . .Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar
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