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Participating in this newsletter without recommending a book seemed blasphemous. Girl, Woman, Other is hands down my favorite book of 2020. I read this in about a week, despite its hefty 500 page length, but I am not discovering gold here, this won the Booker Prize last year and for such good reason. There are so many characters (12) and their stories all drift back and forth in time with each other as they illustrate the Black British experience. Each character is distinct in their background, age, identity, and occupation. The book is written in a prose-y, poetic format but still remains incredibly casual. There are no periods! The book ends in a sort of grand finale splendor we often see in film that interconnect all the characters, but this is done in such a way that is emotional and poignant, instead of cringey.
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Read this for school but honestly i still think about it a lot.
Apr 29, 2024
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such a powerful, beautiful, lyrical, and gutwrenching examination of race, beauty, femininity, family, etc, etc.. I could go on about it, but I'll just say that its prose somehow embodies not only poetry, but as this old NYT review states, also "history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music." if you haven't read it, you must!
Jun 11, 2025
This book blew me away. I’d seen it all over the instagrams of bookshops in London (Daunt Books in particular promotes it like crazy) but even then I didn’t realise just how rich, nuanced, and self-analytical it would be.
Asako Yuzuki is raw and authentic in her depiction of female relationships, in a way that is so real, it’s piercing. From every angle she is able to analyze act of care, how it’s feminised, what it means to give and sacrifice, how that can result in self-negation — and how it ultimately affects all women from all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes.
And she *gets* food.
Nov 5, 2024
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Real mind over matter shit. If you can face the demons of setting a 6:00 AM alarm, the serotonin gods will kiss you.
Mar 8, 2024
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“Rest I need.”
Jan 28, 2024
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Needs more vis
Dec 16, 2023