Brown Girls dives deep into the lives of a group of young women of colour growing up in Queens, New York. Daphne Palasi Andreades paints a stunning collective portrait of the journey from girlhood to adulthood, set against a backdrop of race, class, and marginalisation in America today. Brown Girls is an unforgettable love letter to women of colour everywhere from a daring new writer.
Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche as a winner of a 2021 O.Henry Prize for fiction.