It took me about a month to let this one simmer in the back of my mind before ultimately deciding to round up to four stars. The small thing that threw me at first is overshadowed by how much the ending has stuck with me, and how powerful the implications of that ending are. This one starts out pretty simply with our main character Nella, who works in the otherwise all-white workplace of an influential publishing house based in NYC, excited that another Black woman […]
“You can. Stop fighting the tide, Nella. Once you stop fighting—once you let this wave wash over you—you’ll see. It’ll wash over you so quickly, you won’t even feel it.”
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
