Writing with Fewer Limitations: The Millions Interviews Natasha Brown

The world of high finance tends to figure in thrillers rather than slim literary novels. Now comes Natasha Brown to disrupt that presumption. Brown, who is young, Black, and British, takes readers inside the experience of a young Black, British woman working in the City of London.

Brown’s unnamed protagonist and narrator may be “succeeding” in her career in finance, but her work life is slow, steady torture. She’s done “all the right things;” attended the right schools, taken the right jobs, bought the right apartment. She even dates the right prospect, a young white man from privilege and connections.

Nevertheless, her daily experience is one of constant microaggressions, which is to say