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Essay Topic 1

Like the brown girls in Brown Girls, Daphne Palasi Andreades is from Queens, New York and a brown girl herself. How does this aid the reader in believing the narrator and author are one and the same? What other details from the book suggest that the author is the narrator and the book is autobiographical? Why might the details of this story be important for the author to share about her own life?

Essay Topic 2

Brown Girls reads like poetry. Why? What about it makes it feels like both prose and poetry? Why might Daphne Palasi Andreades have chosen to do this? How does this affect the reader?

Essay Topic 3

The setting of Brown Girls is Queens, New York. What does the reader learn about Queens, particularly the part of the Borough the narrator and her friends live in? How does the setting impact the lives...

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