Assembly

 Assembly by Natasha Brown, 106 pages.

This novella follows an unnamed black British woman through the struggles of modern life in England. She works at a bank and constantly deals with racism, sexism, and the countless small and nameless ways the world tries to break her down. Her wealthy white boyfriend's parents invite her to an upscale garden party, where she spends more time thinking about her place in the world, and if she wants to remain there. 

This book is extremely non-linear, which makes it difficult to judge the order and scale that things are happening in. It also seems terrified of giving characters names, which makes it hard to tell many of the various men apart, making an already difficult to follow story even more difficult to follow. Overall this novella felt like it was more interested in being perceived as "literary" than anything else, and I'm afraid that that goal inhibited anything else it was trying to do.