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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Published: 2019, Penguin Random House Genre: Fiction Themes: Gender, relationships, race, sexual identity, social attitudes My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ The dedication in this book is: ' For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our bretheren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men & our mandem & the LGBTQI+ members of our human family.' Those last five words are the essence of it.  Whoever we love, whatever we look like, dress like, act like.  We are members of our human family.  We should be able to be who we want to be without judgement.  Except we're not there yet and there is still a long way to go.  This book helps to give context to some of the different ways people find love, and how that does not necessarily remain the same for a lifetime.   Bernadine Evaristo introduces us to a great many vibrant people, and you ...