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A review by labeet
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
4.0
The book's title is in fact "Girl, Woman, Other" - I'm still surprised that publishers don't enter their books into Goodreads, which must be the gold standard in book recommendation.
Anyway, a good book giving the reader (me, at least) a glimpse into a world I don't know much about - the world of women of colour. We meet an array of very different women at different times in their lives - and sometimes they meet. There's no story as such, but that isn't necessary, because we're gently led into these women's lives and the conditions they live or have lived under. It is not always pretty, it most certainly has not always been pretty. Evaristo writes fluently and shifts seamlessly between the language of a working class girl and a university professor and sometimes she's quite witty. She doesn't spare her characters when they behave stupidly.
Anyway, a good book giving the reader (me, at least) a glimpse into a world I don't know much about - the world of women of colour. We meet an array of very different women at different times in their lives - and sometimes they meet. There's no story as such, but that isn't necessary, because we're gently led into these women's lives and the conditions they live or have lived under. It is not always pretty, it most certainly has not always been pretty. Evaristo writes fluently and shifts seamlessly between the language of a working class girl and a university professor and sometimes she's quite witty. She doesn't spare her characters when they behave stupidly.