ms_tiahmarie 's review for:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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~as she's in her fifties, she's not
old yet, although try telling that to a nineteen-year-old; in
any case, ageing is nothing to be ashamed of
especially when the entire human race is in it together
although sometimes it seems that she alone among her
friends wants to celebrate getting older
because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely~

~she tried boys a couple of times
they enjoyed it
she endured it~

~Yazz was never told off for speaking her mind, although
she was told off for swearing because she needed to
develop her vocabulary
(Yazz, say you find Marissa unpleasant or unlikeable
rather than describing her as a shit-faced smelly bottom)~

~one thing she's learnt is that falling hopelessly,
helplessly in love is actually a higly selective process~

~Winsome likes the fact that Rachel is curious enough to
know who her grandmother was before she was
mother, when she was a person in her own right, as she
described it
except she never has been, first she was a daughter,
then a wife and mother, and now also a grandmother and
great-grandmother.~

~it had been hard for her to sleep on so much history.~