Book excerpt: “The Other Black Girl” by Zakiya Dalila Harris

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In the witty and insightful workplace thriller, “The Other Black Girl” (Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS), debut novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris writes about a young Black woman toiling at a prestigious publishing company who discovers she has a rival.

The first sign was the smell of cocoa butter.

When it initially crept around the wall of her cubicle, Nella was too busy filing a stack of pages at her desk, aligning each and every one so that the manuscript was perfectly flush. She was so intent on completing this task – Vera Parini needed everything to be flush, always – that she had the nerve to ignore the smell. Only when it inched up her nostrils and latched onto a deep part of her brain did she stop what she was doing and lift her head with sudden interest.

It wasn’t the scent alone that gave her pause. Nella Rogers was used to all kinds of….

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