#the other black girl zakiya dalila harris

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The Other Black Girl 1x3 | “I Know A Place”

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Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.

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Just finished The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris and yes that was a very genre defying experience. It's funny, halfway through you start thinking it's a mystery and by the end you know you are in a horror. I can see why a lot of readers ran out of steam wondering if it would ever pick up. It's structured so that the main confrontation isn't until nearly the last chapter, but it's well worth the wait and I enjoyed it the whole way through.

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Nella Rogers estaba acostumbrada a que todo tipo de olores no deseados reptaran hasta su cubículo; y normalmente eran horribles.

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Top 5 books I'm thankful for in 2024

Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I’m thankful for in 2024!! This is the week that we hit our annual wrap up posts. It starts with Thanksgiving. Which is slightly ironic because we don’t celebrate it. At all. However, I do like the sentiment of being thankful for things. Which is why, every year, we talk about books that we are thankful for. Being…

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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, cover illustration by Temi Coker, cover design by James Iacobelli, printed 2021.

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The Other Black Girl 1x4 | “What About Your Friends”

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by: Zakiya Dalila Harris Published: Jun 1, 2021 Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary 357 Pages, Audio Book (HH:MM) 13:33

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GoodReads Synopsis:

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.

Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.

My Review:

Was not a fan.

I wanted this to be much more sinister than it was. This is a sci-fi book, masquerading as a thriller. The idea of #BlackGirlMagic is cool, but this story just takes it a step too far.

Nella is naive and wants to be 'liked' or 'accepted' by her co-workers to the point of, being a little dramatic and overzealous in the workplace. When the "new" black girl arrives at Wagner, she thinks she has an ally in her corner but quickly realizes that she does not. All of that and this trope of "tokenism" is so overdone in this book -- we get it!

Where is the drama? Where is the mystery? Magical hair grease is where we are in the literary world?

One-Word Summary: Outlandish

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Review: "The Other Black Girl" by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Initial reaction: Goodness I’m finally (free!) done. 1.5 stars overall. I could write a book about knowing what this book was going for, but the execution was not good. Again, count me among the people who very much did not like this book. We’ll talk about it. It tries very hard to be a version of “Get Out” featuring Black women (…it’s not even close.) But if we’re not simply talking about the…

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Jesse Watson’s words about being seen as an equal to white colleagues: “You may think they’re okay with you, and they’ll make you think that they are. But they really aren’t. They never will be. Your presence only makes them fear their own absence.

Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl