Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown Girls | 2022 | Daphne Palasi Andreades | Buy |
Daphne Palasi Andreades’s standalone fiction began with Brown Girls in 2022, a debut novel that earned critical praise for its inventive approach to storytelling. Set in Queens, New York, the novel captures the texture of growing up in one of the most diverse places in the world through the eyes of daughters of immigrants.
The book’s collective narrator gives it a unique rhythm, moving between shared memories and individual moments of joy, confusion, and loss. Brown Girls is a short novel that covers a lot of ground, tracing its characters from childhood games through adult choices and the complicated feelings that come with leaving home while still being shaped by it.