#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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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

★★

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

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➫ monthly book round-up: june 2024

books read: 11 [+57%] average rating: 3.85 [+23%] average speed: 6.5 days [-7%] total pages: 3,583 [+31%] yearly goal progress: 39/50 [78%] best of the month: babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution, r.f. kuang worst of the month: the first woman, jennifer nansubuga makumbi

5* reads:

quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking, susan cain

babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution, r.f. kuang

4.5* reads:

the thursday murder club, richard osman

4* reads:

excuse me while i ugly cry, joya goffney

enola holmes and the black barouche, nancy springer

loud black girls, yomi adegoke + elizabeth uviebinené

3.5* reads:

minor detail, adania shibli

3* reads:

the list, yomi adegoke

circe, madeline miller

2.5* reads:

the first woman, jennifer nansubuga makumbi

DNFs:

back to black: black radicalism for the 21st century, kehinde andrews

currently reading:

dracula, bram stoker

the other black girl, zakiya dalila harris

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summer reading list recommendations? pls?

hi! i’m gonna share 2 lists. books i’ve read and would recommend and books that i am planning to read this summer if u would like to come along for that journey!

books i recommend

raw dog by jamie loftus (nonfiction)

motherthing by ainslie hogarth (horror)

the other black girl by zakiya dalila harris (thriller)

ANYTHING by gillian flynn but sharp objects is the most summery to me (tw sa & self harm for that one)

ANYTHING by megan abbott but if you’re looking for fun, my rec is always dare me. if you’re looking for something sweltering and suffocating and horrible that feels like july heat, my rec is the end of everything (tw csa)

such sharp teeth by rachel harrison (horror. tw for body horror)

wreckage of my presence by casey wilson (nonfiction, memoir)

anything by mona awad but bunny is a very summer book for me! alls well is perfect too.

just like home by sarah gailey (horror)

nightbitch by rachel yoder (horror. tw for body horror & animal deaths)

re-read a series you love! i just reread the hunger games and it was SOOOO GOOOOD

anything jane austen. anything anything anything!

any mary oliver poetry but it has to be read outside or right before a walk

my summer reading list!

beware the woman by megan abbott

tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica

the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins

(hopefully) scammer by caroline calloway (this book may never come)

if i had your face by frances cha

the guest by emma cline

leaving the rest up to chance :)