Girl, Woman, Other

A patchwork quilt of intersecting, crisscrossing stories - each that could have stood alone. Evaristo's prizewinning masterpiece covers so many subjects; love, death, abandonment, forgiveness, feminism, transgender issues, racism, sexism, domestic violence - to name but a few. There's no preaching, just discussions which inform you and allow you to make your own opinion. Overall, it is a book full of enjoyable stories about people, who they are and how they affect each other. I could have happily kept on reading, following all the paths leading away to the next person and the next and the next. But I also feel the book ended perfectly, with a moving scene that needed no further exploration.