Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

95 reviews

sophiegs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Deadnaming

emmathetanner's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book covers such a large scope it is hard to say anything definitive about it. It is masterfully constructed, and story to story, chapter to chapter, you can feel the web of characters growing in your mind. Nothing is unconsidered. This is a novel of beautiful character studies and fascinating small stories that I would recommend to anyone

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Miscarriage

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

tina94's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Addiction, Child death, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

Minor: Bullying and Police brutality

Post-partum depression

nibs's review against another edition

challenging emotional

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book highlights the diversity of (mostly) Black, (mostly) women. It draws people together and highlights their differences, yet humanises everyone. 
I loved almost everything about it. This book was embued with feminist discussions, and is one of my favourites. However, I did feel let down by the frequent deadnaming of a non-binary character in the book. I feel like their story could have been told without using their deadname at all (or if anything only a couple of times), rather than it being used so frequently with their old pronouns to communicate their past. I understand the idea of doing this to make it less confusing to talk about this character pre-transition, but this is a similar argument many people use to justify continuing to deadname trans folks, which is really hurtful. 
I guess I expected better since so many complex feminist ideas are addressed in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 This was so brilliant. It's like a series of twelve linked short stories and I don't think I've read anything else like it. The writing is excellent, making for vividly drawn, memorable characters. I often didn't want to leave a character at the end of their chapter, but then I'd become almost immediately invested in the next one's life. It's completely deserving of the Booker Prize win (and so much better than The Testaments in my opinion). It's been months since I first decided I wanted to read it and it was completely worth the wait from the library. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Miscarriage, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence