I knew I needed "The Other Black Girl" because my first job was in publishing; I worked a few floors below Zakiya Dalilah Harris's eventual home (ZDH worked at Knopf/Doubleday). What is the setup here? A young woman, Nella, finds herself at a publishing house. She is the only Black person on her floor. Life in New York presents challenges for a young person; you need a scarf that is appropriately thin for the overbearing subway air-conditioning, but also appropriately thick for the stunning heat on any given subway platform. You don't get an office if you're an editorial assistant; you get a cube, so you're intensely aware of the smells and phone-sounds of every person within a three-cube radius. One obnoxious "cube-floater" will work for the ninety-year-old editor who never comes to the office anymore; because the cube-floater has no actual tasks, she will just wander the floor and bother you when you're trying to complete a call. My favorite t...