Herstory

What did they used to say about a Lay's potato chip? “You can't eat just one.” That's true for this book, too. It's a book of fifty women and girls' stories. You may start it, thinking you might just read about the life of Maria Montessori, maybe. And you do, thinking, Wow, I didn't know Maria was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times before she died. And then you see that the next chapter is a story of Mother Teresa, and you get wowed again by learning Teresa had a vision at twelve that God was calling her to become a nun. And on you go, to Wangari Maathai, to Elizabeth Blackwell, Eva Peron, on and on to the end, and starting over to read all the stories again, reading and being wowed, reading and being wowed, a book that almost reads itself with all its wondrous stories of bravery and determination and vision.