Zakiya Dalila Harris's debut novel, 'The Other Black Girl,' is Marie Claire's June #ReadWithMC book club pick. Read the first chapter of the book here.
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Nella Rogers is happy at first to see that another Black woman has been hired as an editorial assistant at Wagner Books. She s tired of being just about the only Black person in the room or really any room at Wagner. And then one morning, Nella looks through a small crack in a cubicle and sees what she calls the flash of a brown hand.
It s Hazel-May McCall, resplendent in locs, every one as thick as a bubble tea straw and longer than her arms, a sharp marigold pantsuit and red patent leather ankle boots that Nella would have broken her neck just trying to get into.