An edition of Girl, Woman, Other (2019)

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An edition of Girl, Woman, Other (2019)

Girl, Woman, Other

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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. 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, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an 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. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative and fast-moving form that borrows from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart"--

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452

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Girl, Woman, Other
Oct 01, 2021, Tai WAN Shang Wu
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Girl, Woman, Other
2020, Penguin
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Girl, Woman, Other: Library Edition
May 11, 2020, Blackstone Pub
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Girl, Woman, Other
Feb 11, 2020, Blackstone Publishing
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Girl, Woman, Other
Oct 26, 2020, Vichae
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Girl, Woman, Other: Library Edition
Feb 11, 2020, Blackstone Pub, Blackstone Publishing
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Girl, Woman, Other
2019, Black Cat, Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Trade Paperback in English
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Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel
Dec 03, 2019, Grove Press
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Girl, Woman, Other: Winner of the Booker Prize 2019
2019, Penguin Books, Limited
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Girl, Woman, Other
2019-12, Black Cat
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Copyright Date
2019

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Format
Trade Paperback
Number of pages
452

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27698210M
ISBN 13
9780802156983
LCCN
2019403414, 2019040552
OCLC/WorldCat
1124677895, 1129417762, 1112888264

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Work ID
OL20470196W

Work Description

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.

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