Gir,Women,Other
By Bernardine Evaristo
Rating : 2.5/5
Genres : women's fiction, black women.
I guess this will be the first book that I have given a higher than intended rating(I guess a negative 5) because the writing and narration are too good - only i feel disgusted having completed this. Not even all the sexual explicitness of Haruki Murakami's writing ever evoked such strong emotions and feelings of nausea in me. Reading this shows how thoroughly damaged and messed up this world is! Either there are a lot of disgusting things really happening in the world to women or just black women are beacons attracting such unfortunate circumstances. Like nothing good ever happens in the life of a black person,can this be true?
The author tells the stories of multiple women..their daughters..their mothers from different perspectives.. but its the same story everywhere. Someone is a lesbian with numerous girlfriends and has a daughter with a gay man.. someone else is abandoned by her husband and her daughter is ravaged as a child by boys..while her friend is cheated, sweet talked by one lover after another and ends up mother to three kids by the age of 21.. I was just shocked and fed up really. What an unhealthy and violent world this happens to be right?
Turns out I didn't even get to the end page. I didn't care one bit for the fates of any of those women. One of them has an adulterous relationship with her son in law and compares him constantly with her loyal,loving but soft husband as if he is falling short..pathetic, pathetic. :/ I dont ever want to live or embody a life that is along the lines of any of those women for sure. :/
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