amylangdown_ 's review for:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is beautifully complex and yet somehow simple at the same time. The way the book follows different characters through their lives and shows how they all link up is so very clever. The characters were so real and tangible and their experiences so different and yet so universal. I really enjoyed the way the book was split up into chapters and then into characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Pregnancy