Girl, Woman, Other
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.
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- Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of:
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is another recent literary favorite
- I bounced off Midnight’s Children the first time I tried to read it, but that was probably 10 or 15 years ago now. I’m in between books at the moment, so your comment will push me to put it on the top of my list for the new year :)
Girl, Woman, Other is one of my overall favorites from the last few years. Th character work is phenomenal. Do try to read a hard copy, rather than on an ereader, if you can. The book uses punctuation and the layout of text on a page creatively, and I’m not sure how well that gets preserved in an ebook.
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.
A beautifully written, immensely moving, very funny novel with a really nuanced but profoundly important message.
It’s essentially a call for empathy.
I thought of myself, a white male, as progressive and very aware already of the issues of gender and color in our societies’ power structures. This book made me very humble. It made me look at the place women, and women of colour in particular, have in today’s society in a completely different way.
Just give it a go guys, just the reading experience is worth it.
- List plain text (from https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-...)
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” by Shoshana Zuboff “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company,” by William Dalrymple “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” by Casey Cep “Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner) “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present,” by David Treuer “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell “Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli “Lot: Stories,” by Bryan Washington “Normal People,” by Sally Rooney “The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson “The Yellow House,” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction) “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” by Patrick Radden Keefe “Solitary,” by Albert Woodfox “The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction) “We Live in Water: Stories,” by Jess Walter - 1. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff
https://www.worldcat.org/title/age-of-surveillance-capitalis...
2. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple
https://www.worldcat.org/title/anarchy-the-relentless-rise-o...
3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep
https://www.worldcat.org/title/furious-hours-murder-fraud-an...
4. Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize winner)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/girl-woman-other/oclc/1127909...
5. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer
https://www.worldcat.org/title/heartbeat-of-wounded-knee-nat...
6. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-t...
7. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli
https://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-children-archive/oclc/11...
8. Lot: Stories, by Bryan Washington
https://www.worldcat.org/title/lot-stories/oclc/1128099233
9. Normal People, by Sally Rooney
https://www.worldcat.org/title/normal-people/oclc/1119769689
10. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
https://www.worldcat.org/title/orphan-masters-son-a-novel/oc...
11. The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/yellow-house/oclc/1122461200
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
https://www.worldcat.org/title/say-nothing-a-true-story-of-m...
13. Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
https://www.worldcat.org/title/solitary/oclc/1105720325
14. The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner
https://www.worldcat.org/title/topeka-school/oclc/1126252713
15. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino
https://www.worldcat.org/title/trick-mirror-reflections-on-s...
16. Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi (National Book Award winner, fiction)
https://www.worldcat.org/title/trust-exercise/oclc/111435376...
17. We Live in Water: Stories, by Jess Walter
https://www.worldcat.org/title/we-live-in-water-stories/oclc...
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