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A review by callum_mclaughlin
Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
5.0
In a series of prose poems set on an island where men are descendants of angels and women come from the sea, Nin Andrews shrewdly flips society as we know it on its head and in doing so exposes the absurdity of the gender roles we have carved for ourselves.
Young boys are taught to reign in their aspirations and conceal the blood on their backs from wings breaking through skin, whilst women browbeat their husbands to prepare them for a life of domesticity, and lust after those with the biggest wingspans.
In simple language with flashes of beauty, Andrews has constructed an eye-opening, intelligent, witty and fantastical satire that has a lot to say.
Young boys are taught to reign in their aspirations and conceal the blood on their backs from wings breaking through skin, whilst women browbeat their husbands to prepare them for a life of domesticity, and lust after those with the biggest wingspans.
In simple language with flashes of beauty, Andrews has constructed an eye-opening, intelligent, witty and fantastical satire that has a lot to say.