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I Don’t Get Verse

The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo

March 15, 2021 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Fans of the author’s previous work. People who want to have to work really hard to understand what they are reading. In a nutshell: Zuleika is a Sudanese woman living in Londinium in 211. She is married as a pre-teen, then eventually starts an affair with the Roman emperor. Worth quoting: “She moaned she had no time to herself now. I moaned that was all I had.” Why I chose it: It was part of a subscription box. Review: I want to challenge […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Bernardine Evaristo

ASKReviews's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Bernardine Evaristo ·
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It’s just so good and I really need to know if the other book deserved that prize too

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

April 6, 2020 by zinka 2 Comments

In Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo traces the impacts of identity, racism, xenophobia, feminism, slavery, classism, and so much more through many generations of British women of color who are not tied to each other only by blood but rather through encounters and relationships, some briefer than others. Each of these women has a different history and understanding of their relationship to the world that greatly affects how they view themselves and others around them. Each of their stories comes beautifully up against conflict where […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize, identity, Race

zinka's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize, identity, Race ·
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