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peckreadsbooks's review
3.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism
aseel_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
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, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Stalking, and Gaslighting
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
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: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism
mx_sunshine's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Racism
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Misogyny
Minor: Cursing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Colonisation
therecoveringbookworm's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Classism
Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia
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: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
nialiversuch's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Cursing, Slavery, and Religious bigotry