Girl, Woman, Other

Hardcover, 480 pages

English language

Published 2019 by Penguin Books, Limited, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-241-36490-1
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OCLC Number:
1047822661

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5 stars (4 reviews)

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.

10 editions

This is about being together

5 stars

I’m very late to the afterparty, but hey. Got this as a present a while ago, but never got around to reading it. Thanks to sickness I finally made it. And what can I say. It’s wonderful. The language, the characters, the way Evaristo is able to paint their complicated, lovable, hatable, conflicted life stories. It’s a book about identity, about belonging and alienation, surviving and thriving.

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4 stars

This book is a collection of portraits of women, all linked together around a play at the National Theatre. Each portrait is deep and interesting and real, it feels like falling deeper and deeper each time. I enjoyed it and I recommend it. It is written as an internal monologue, with minimal punctuation, which means it requires concentration, and it's quite long.

Thanks to NetGalley for sending me a copy in exchange for my review.

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