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A review by hedgefundhogmanager
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
5.0
Rachel is old as the world, but this is still her eternally teenage romance, with humor and curiosity on every page.
One interpretation of this is depressing for the feminist: Rachel has toiled so much through the centuries as a womb and caretaker, as a "woman who is never alone", as the one most affected by her children dying over and over again, that she wants it to end. But she is extremely conscious of this all throughout, no matter what age she is in. That, I think, is much more important than participating in symbolic victories for women. We have to remember that her main problem is immortality, not immortality as a woman.
One interpretation of this is depressing for the feminist: Rachel has toiled so much through the centuries as a womb and caretaker, as a "woman who is never alone", as the one most affected by her children dying over and over again, that she wants it to end. But she is extremely conscious of this all throughout, no matter what age she is in. That, I think, is much more important than participating in symbolic victories for women. We have to remember that her main problem is immortality, not immortality as a woman.