She is really the millennial who is speaking out. She expresses her opinions about things in a very confident way. she comes from civil rights kind of royalty. She is really kind of the poster child for Blackness in a lot of ways. And so to have this flash of color in this space that's usually really drab - and frankly, very white - Nella's enthusiastic and excited about that and what that could mean for her." She has been the only Black person at Wagner Books for the last two years. "She is so curious, she is really just genuinely excited. Harris says Nella is fascinated by Hazel. The book draws on her own experiences in publishing. Nella and Hazel are at the center of Zakiya Dalila Harris's debut novel The Other Black Girl (full disclosure: Harris is the sister of our own Aisha Harris, one of the hosts of Pop Culture Happy Hour). 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." And then one morning, Nella looks through a small crack in a cubicle and sees what she calls "the flash of a brown hand." She's tired of being just about the only Black person in the room - or really any room at Wagner. Nella Rogers is happy at first to see that another Black woman has been hired as an editorial assistant at Wagner Books.
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