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Girl, woman, other : a novel / Bernardine Evaristo.

Summary:

The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative and fast-moving form that borrows from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.

Record details

  • ISBN: 080215770X
  • ISBN: 9780802157706
  • Physical Description: 452 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:
First published in 2019 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
Formatted Contents Note:
Anna -- Yazz -- Dominique -- Carole -- Bummi -- LaTisha -- Shirley -- Winsome -- Penelope -- Megan/Morgan -- Hattie -- Grace -- The after-party.
Awards Note:
The Booker Prize 2019 winner
Subject: Women, Black > Great Britain > Fiction.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Swinomish Library District. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Regional Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
La Conner Regional Library FIC EVARISTO 112479 FICTION Available -


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