A 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel, which shared the victory with Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments.” Full of life and bubbling energy, this book is a hymn to modern Britain and to all Black women! “Girl, Woman, Other” is a polyphony of voices of twelve very different Black British women, whose lives turn out to be closer than one might have assumed. Their stories intertwine across years; a whole chain of their friends, lovers, and relatives passes before the reader’s eyes. With every page, their images gain depth and fullness, making lives that we’re used to not thinking about visible and important.
“Evaristo writes with great sensitivity about how we raise our children, how we build careers, how we grieve and how we love.” — Financial Time