I've been living in Bernadine Evaristo's mind. The thoughts haunted me until there was nothing left. Here are the 'Girl, Woman, Other' thoughts.
Womanhood isn't all about adhering to a stereotyped version of womanhood.
Being born female isn't the problem; society's expectations are.
Feminists weren't synonymous with man-haters.
Feminism is about Women's liberation, equal rights, and freedom from limiting expectations.
Women aren't designed to have babies.
Women can take long strides, be assertive, take charge, wear men's clothes, have unhsaved legs, shave their heads, drink pints instead of wine, and prefer football to online make-up tutorials.
Women may have ovaries, breasts, and vaginas.
Women can medically transition by taking testosterone; they can thicken their skin, deepen their voice, bulk up, get hairy, and get phallopasty.
When most parts of the world have still been arguing whether to accept homosexuality or not, 'Girl, Woman, Other' expresses their unrestricted lives in Britain like anyone else. I would say it is an unvarnished book about twelve interesting black British women living in Britain. also an incisive book about Britain and its people. None of the characters' personalities are primitive, but rather modern.
This book discusses many elements, like women carrying emotional baggage to become strong contenders while ignoring societal pressure, and women who live a life sentence in a failed marriage evolving as humans while embracing feminism.
The free-flowing narration smoothly changes the topic so that the readers wouldn't notice, formulating from an angle and going in a different direction.
If I said the author had an ordeal in the past, it wouldn't be right; rather, she is much more self-aware of herself and her surroundings. The modernistic freedom in her voice wrecked me irrevocably and constantly created inner monologues.
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