Friday 25 November 2022

2022 November - Girl, Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo

 My comment before meeting:   It's about lesbian women justifying being lesbian I think. It's 12 separate stories loosely attached. I didn't finish it (85). The woman is also a rebel who rebels against good english and throws away centuries of development of good punctuation and structure. There are some good phrases and paragraphs(?) though.

Stories are grouped in Threes.

It's about strong and persevering women

The stories reflect a hierarchy of prejudices  starting with the strongest first and looking at other ones as the book progresses, even to a prejudice against Yorkshiremen.   It tones down with each story.  the third story is historic. 

Our mark, for those five that gave marks, were 8.