{"id":143925,"date":"2021-08-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143925"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T12:41:09","slug":"rachel-reviews-the-other-black-girl-zakiya-dalila-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143925","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reviews: The Other Black Girl &#8211; Zakiya Dalila Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":qk\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span id=\"m_-7225845809707825950gmail-docs-internal-guid-8f84e83e-7fff-20ce-31d0-d12f954898eb\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Compared to both <em>The Stepford Wives<\/em> and <em>Get Out<\/em>, Harris\u2019s debut is a tense psychological thriller that had me compelled from the start. Set over a few months, <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4706304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4706304&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628017917241000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG0kpc_Rf4BsKhxnHD3q3rBQTkOug\">The Other Black Girl<\/a> follows editorial assistant Nella after she\u2019s introduced to her new cubicle neighbor Hazel, the eponymous Other Black Girl; receives threatening notes; and uncovers the real reason why she\u2019s never been promoted at the white-majority publishing house at which she works. Though I was a bit underwhelmed by the narrative twist, <em>The Other Black Girl<\/em>\u2019s intersectional take on race, class, and gender kept me engaged and reaching for it over TV or TikTok. Recommended for readers who love when the plot\u2019s driving force is revealed\u2014and then the action keeps going.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to both The Stepford Wives and Get Out, Harris\u2019s debut is a tense psychological thriller that had me compelled from the start. Set over a few months, The Other Black Girl follows editorial assistant Nella after she\u2019s introduced to her new cubicle neighbor Hazel, the eponymous Other Black Girl; receives threatening notes; and uncovers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-rachel-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Other-Black-GIrl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Brn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143928,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143925\/revisions\/143928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}