Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

This one goes in a bit of every direction. Fitting since a big portion of it artfully presents the fluidity of Gender, Identity, and Sexuality across many years and intersecting lives. This novel brings together an orchestral ensemble of varying viewpoints, experiences, and voices. It is alarmingly impressive how Evaristo can give stage to so many distinct voices and characters. Evaristo simultaneously guides us through the multitude of identity politics and ideology while also illuminating its limits. The sometimes relentless pursuit to atomic level divisions that separate us from those we would ascribe as kinfolk. Necessary identifying groupings that at the same time could hide even the blood connections that tie us to something larger. I really enjoyed the ping pong narrative technique that moves the story through time from multiple perspectives. A refreshing and engaging approach to storytelling. The storytelling style also serves the purpose of spotlighting individual experiences without becoming disorienting as the book progresses. Packed with a generous serving of subplots and through lines, this book has something for everybody.