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Part One

· Brown Girls is a novel written like a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from Queens, beginning with them as young girls.

· Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area of Queens in which she and her friends live, “the dregs of Queens, New York, where airplanes fly so low…a lonely tree grows…in front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines” (3).

· In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls, from 7-eleven root beer to peanut butter.

· In Part One, The Dregs of Queens, the narrator describes her and her friends’ hometown - the central road nicknamed the “Boulevard of death,” nail salons, an auto repair shop, a branch of the New York Public Library with a homeless man sleeping inside, White Castle, aboveground...

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