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aseel_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Racism
Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Death of parent
theinkedpath's review against another edition
5.0
Todo el mundo a leer este libro YA. TREMENDO.Mi libro de no ficción favorito del año (empieza a aplaudir como una loca).
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My first Bernardine Everisto´s book I have ever read, and I feel in love with her and her way of analysing Great Britain, connection to race and History and how this has influenced her writing. AND, OMG, I ADORE HOW SHE TALKS ABOUT WRITING!
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexism, Racial slurs, Stalking, Gaslighting, Racism, Violence, and Physical abuse
This is an autobiography by the author which is focused on how she became a writer and how her personal experience influenced her writing craft.sakisreads's review against another edition
4.0
There are obviously some content warnings required for this book. As a biracial woman (coming from a working-class background) growing up in Britain, she faces many challenges and many racist people 😫
The content warnings will be included below.
There was something rather refreshing and striking about her perspective on people though. She describes some of her relationships and admits to also being a slightly shitty person, and that’s not something people can do very often (myself included)! There is so much nuance in any relationship and so reading about her experiences felt revitalising somehow 🥹
4 out of 5 stars for me! ✨
Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Misogyny
leanneymu's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Racism, Classism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
mx_sunshine's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Misogyny
Minor: Colonisation, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs
streberkatze's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism
kirstym25's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse
timbookshelf's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Racism
dominicangirl's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Racism and Misogyny
readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition
4.0
I read Girl, Woman, Other in 2021 and loved it, so when I saw that Bernardine Evaristo had a memoir coming out, I was keen to pick it up. I was interested to know more about her as a person and this book certainly delivered.
Evaristo chronicles her childhood growing up in London, her life as a writer, her process for writing, and how she became an activist involved in theatre and mentoring young people of colour. She describes how she discovered in her youth that she liked women (cataloguing one particularly toxic, emotionally abusive relationship in startling detail), but later in life felt that she preferred men.
She also describes the racism she's endured over the decades and what it was like to meet Margaret Atwood at the bottom of the stairs to the stage, knowing they had both just won the Booker Prize. Evaristo has had such an interesting life and she narrates it all with a clarity and candor that make this a really engaging read.
Content warnings for discussions of racism and sexism, break ins, emotionally abusive, toxic relationships, domestic abuse.
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse