Male colleagues in similar positions demote her to coffee intern and demand secretarial work from her when they are too lazy to take on organizational tasks themselves. White male colleagues deny her competence when they tell her to her face that she only got her job because of the new emphasis on diversity. But this material success is marred by everyday racism and sexism, which make it increasingly clear to her how much she has to be bent and exploited to be part of this industry and environment. The unnamed protagonist works in the financial sector, is promoted, has just bought a London apartment, and has invested her own money profitably. Natasha Brown’s novel runs to just over 100 pages and consists of various, fleeting snippets of thought that gradually come together to form a hole-filled whole. This celebration in rural England is the culmination of her inner dilemmas: has she made it or are her actions making her an accomplice to the racism she experiences? At this party, she makes up her mind.
A Black British woman, the first-person narrator, attends a family party for an upper-class white family as their son’s partner. Diversity trainer, translator and editor of poco.lit.Īs the title of Natasha Brown’s debut novel suggests, it amounts to a coming-together, an assembling.
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