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Assembly natasha brown review6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() We learn much more, even in passing, about those who surround her: friends, neighbours, acquaintances. ![]() It tells us nothing about this story, this storyteller. Illuminated, yes, but hardly illuminating. It’s not my life, but it’s illuminated two metres tall behind me and I’m speaking it into the soft, malleable faces tilted forwards on uniformed shoulders. There’s hard work, pulling up laces, rolling up shirtsleeves, and forcing yourself. You get the impression our narrator has always been, if not above, then over it. Disillusioned is perhaps the wrong word for someone who has never been, at least in one sense, under any illusions. It looks like hymns and barely secular thoughts-for-the-day have been swapped out for inspirational, aspirational presentations packaged and delivered by young, gifted and disillusioned City workers, such as the narrator of Assembly, Natasha Brown’s debut. ![]()
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