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Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo

5 reviews

litker's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Evaristo's narrative voice carries the reader easily through the various stages of her life. She addresses racism, privilege, and above all her absolute determination to live a life of creativity. It's not long, and the individual chapters stand alone as pieces of literary non-fiction. Her exploration of the process behind her work is interesting and certainly makes me want to read more of her work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

aseel_reads's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed learning more about the author who wrote two books I've read before. Super interesting and cool tbh 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

sakisreads's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Ooh! Bernardine Evaristo nailed it again with this autobiography 👏🏼 Broken down into chapters on different aspects of her life, she writes brilliantly. As a fan of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ and ‘Mr. Loverman’, I had high expectations and she did not miss 🥰

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 🥹

Obviously this is not related to TMD (The Mental Dominatrix) 🥲

4 out of 5 stars for me! ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

therecoveringbookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing, Slavery, and Religious bigotry