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From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color comes a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women.
Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
The twelve central characters of this multivoiced 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 ninety-three-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 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.
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“Nabirye’s warm, rhythmic voice embraces listeners from the first rush of words…and pulls you onto the merry-go-round of personalities and stories. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“A choral love song to black womanhood.”
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“Evaristo has a gift for appraising the lives of her characters with sympathy and grace while gently skewering some of their pretensions.”
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“Voices of black women come to the fore in a swirl of interrelated stories that cover the past century of British life.”
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“Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness.”
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“It takes a talented narrator to capture the voices of all these different people, and Nabirye does each one perfectly.”
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“A breathtaking symphony of black women’s voices, a clear-eyed survey of contemporary challenges that’s nevertheless wonderfully life-affirming.”
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“The intermingling stories of generations of black British women told in a gloriously rich and readable free verse will surely be seen as a landmark in British fiction.”
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“A sparkling new novel of interconnected stories…If you want to understand modern-day Britain, this is the writer to read.”
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“Brims with vitality…She captures the shared experience that make us, as she puts it in her dedication, ‘members of the human family.’"
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“Nuanced and entertaining…Told from the point of view of twelve British women of color—all just a few degrees of separation apart from each other.”
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“Readers…will be entertained, educated, and riveted.”
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“Evaristo beguiles with her exceptional depictions of a range of experiences of black British women…A stunning powerhouse of vibrant characters and heartbreaks.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“As she creates a space for immigrants and the children of immigrants to tell their stories…there is room for everyone to find a home in this extraordinary novel.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize
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An Electric Literature Pick of Highly Anticipated Queer Books
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month
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An Entertainment Weekly Pick for Best Books of the Month
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A Bustle Pick of the Month's Best Books
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A Refinery29 Pick for the Best Books of the Month
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A Millions.com Pick of the Month
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A Literary Hub Pick of Favorite Books of the Year
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year in Fiction
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A Vogue Best Book of 2019 in Fiction
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A Midwest Indie Bestseller in Fiction
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year in Fiction
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A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
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An Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year selection
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An Audible Pick of This Month's Listener Favorites
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A Barack Obama Reading List Pick of the Year
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A CBC Pick for Your Winter Reading List
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Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
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A BookRiot Pick of the Best Audiobooks
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Winner of the Indie Book Award in Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Girl, Woman, Other Listener Reviews
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Romayne Holmes, 1/26/2023
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Sharon Stimpson, 12/16/2022
About Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction, including the novel Girl, Woman, Other, which won the 2019 Booker Prize. She is the first Black woman to ever have received the Booker Prize. She is professor of creative writing at Brunel University London and vice chair of the Royal Society of Literature. Her writing is characterized by experimentation, daring, and subversion, challenging the myths of various Afro-diasporic histories and identities, and her books range in genre from poetry to short story to drama to criticism. Her books have been chosen as a book of the year thirteen times by British media, and her novel The Emperor’s Babe was a London Times Book of the Decade.