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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
This was a gorgeous story about love, motherhood, sisters, and feminism. This story follows two sisters: Jo and Bethie, from their childhood in the 1950's through the rest of their lives. Jo is a struggling-to-be-accepted lesbian, wanna-be writer, and a strong activist when it comes to equal rights for females. Bethie is a strong, beautiful young girl who should've been famous.
This book is so great because of its diversity with a lesbian lead character, and lgbt relationships as well as interracial relationships in this book. But this book is also tough to read at times because of so many trigger warnings for things like: homophobia, rape, sexual abuse (mental and physical), sexism, eating disorders, etc. It covers a whole lot of important topics in this book. Jo actually reminded me a lot of myself with her desire to be a writer but failing to make it happen, and her wanting to do everything she can to make the world a better place and putting all her thoughts and energy into making sure females have equal rights but not really knowing where to start.
I felt so much for Bethie and Jo in this novel, and all the hardships they faced in this book. I feel like every woman out there can relate to some aspect of this book. This book really displays the struggles of being a woman, especially in the older days and how we always had to fight to prove we were equals. This book especially shines a light specifically on mother/daughter relationships and how complicated and complex those can be, especially when mothers set false expectations for their daughters.
It was just a really great story about two incredibly strong and brave sisters, and it's probably one of the most feminist stories I've ever read and it made me feel a whole lot.
This book is so great because of its diversity with a lesbian lead character, and lgbt relationships as well as interracial relationships in this book. But this book is also tough to read at times because of so many trigger warnings for things like: homophobia, rape, sexual abuse (mental and physical), sexism, eating disorders, etc. It covers a whole lot of important topics in this book. Jo actually reminded me a lot of myself with her desire to be a writer but failing to make it happen, and her wanting to do everything she can to make the world a better place and putting all her thoughts and energy into making sure females have equal rights but not really knowing where to start.
I felt so much for Bethie and Jo in this novel, and all the hardships they faced in this book. I feel like every woman out there can relate to some aspect of this book. This book really displays the struggles of being a woman, especially in the older days and how we always had to fight to prove we were equals. This book especially shines a light specifically on mother/daughter relationships and how complicated and complex those can be, especially when mothers set false expectations for their daughters.
It was just a really great story about two incredibly strong and brave sisters, and it's probably one of the most feminist stories I've ever read and it made me feel a whole lot.