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chronicallylavender 's review for:
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
Bernadine Evaristo does such an incredible job at creating so many nuanced different complex characters through different generations whose stories are interwoven with one another. How does she do that.
All of them gave me feelings of love or dislike or sympathy and there was this one storywhere she described two women discovering their romantic and sexual fondness to each other that made me cry just from how beautiful it was to me.
At first for some reason I completely forgot to read the epilogue and when my friend talked about it I was like what I didn’t read that? So I went back and read it and I kinda hated it and thought it was better when I hadn’t but with some more time I accepted it.
Cause that reveal/storyline kind of made me feel like it was for the white audience? To make them not feel excluded? And usually I would’ve smelled that before we got to the end but this time I was shocked because I just so did not want this lol.
All of them gave me feelings of love or dislike or sympathy and there was this one story
At first for some reason I completely forgot to read the epilogue and when my friend talked about it I was like what I didn’t read that? So I went back and read it and I kinda hated it and thought it was better when I hadn’t but with some more time I accepted it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship