03859cam a2200481 4500 576267978 TxGeo 20220710120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802156990 0802156991 B07WGWQSPJ Amazon aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4900149 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- Girl, Woman, Other [Libby] : A Novel. Grove Atlantic, 2019. motherhood. black women. atwood. Female friendship. transgender. LGBTQ. Testaments. Booker Prize. black motherhood. Black Female Friendship. Black Literary Fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2873kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:<p><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br /> WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE</strong></p> <p><strong>"A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum." —Booker Prize Judges</strong></p> <p>Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.</p> <p>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, is a successful 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.</p> <p>Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-09 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5