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I could use words like elegant and brilliantly judged and literary antecedents such as Katherine Mansfield/Toni Morrison/Claudia Rankine. “A quiet, measured call to revolution… slim in the hand, but its impact is massive it strikes me as the kind of book that sits on the faultline between a before and an after. BRANDON TAYLOR, author of REAL LIFE and FILTHY ANIMALS Assembly is like Thomas Bernhard in the key of Rachel Cusk but about black subjectivity.” Each sentence is a perfectly polished jewel.”- AVNI DOSHI, author of BURNT SUGAR

I take hope from Assembly, not just for our literature but also for our slow awakening.”- DIANA EVANS, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE “Bold and original, with a cool intelligence, and so very truthful about the colonialist structure of British society: how it has poisoned even our language, making its necessary dismantling almost the stuff of dreams. BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Booker Prize-winning author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER “Natasha Brown’s exquisite prose, daring structure and understated elegance are utterly captivating. She is a stunning new writer.” Brown's gaze is piercing."-Avni Doshi, author of Burnt Sugar “A quiet, measured call to revolution…This is the kind of book that doesn’t just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible.”-Ali Smith, author of Summer Dalloway meets Claudia Rankine's Citizen…as breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true.”-Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy and Asylum RoadĪ woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo) With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away. 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.

The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. Go to college, get an education, start a career. This blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary novel finds a woman with everything on the line and a life-or-death decision waiting for her-perfect for fans of Claudia Rankine and Jenny Offill.Ĭome of age in the credit crunch.