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| Positions of empathy … Bernardine Evaristo. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian |
Review
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo review – joy as well as struggle
The interconnected stories of a group of black British women raise timeless questions about feminism and race
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Wed 8 May 2019 08.59 BST
Black women’s stories have long been misread as something they are not. It is hard to write fiction without being asked: is this story about you? And does this singular tale represent the collective black female experience? Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other turns a subtle side-eye to both questions, and makes answering them an impossible task.
