Birmingham Public Library: Book Review Quick Hits: "The Other Black Girl" By Zakiya Dalila Harris

Press release from Birmingham Public Library:

October 21, 2021

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris was one of the most heralded releases of 2021—and with good reason.

Harris, who spent several years as an editorial assistant and then an assistant editor with Knopf/Doubleday Publishing, uses her inside knowledge of the industry as the basis for this unbuttoned and fictional look at racial dynamics in the publishing world.

Fast paced and clever, Harris allows her characters, and the situations they find themselves in, to speak for themselves.

Rather than explain every nuance and cultural statement, she expects the reader to do some of their own research.

Harris subtly breaks the third wall at times, pulling the reader and their research into the dialogue.

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