Many tales, one juncture

Nobody is born strong, they find their strength through their life course, take decisions, or are forced into making one, with coflicting dilemmas in their head. They learn, fail, raise, fight, succumb, love, cheat, speak, express, achieve, choose, it's not restricted to gender, but being human. We need a voice, and Bernardino Evaristo does a spectacular job of weaving 12 diffrent voices, from 12 diffrent backgrounds into one common narrative. Loved it, a masterpiece and i couldn't have thought of any other book other than this to win the prestigious Booker Prize last year! Read it, to embrace your vulnerability and find your person.

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Monotonous narration brings it down

The story is good and could be quite engaging if read. But the narration makes it hard to get engaged with the characters or the flow. thumbs down.

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a story where every character is the protagonist

its a story where every character gets to be the protagonist. the narrator's voice reminds me of Adiche

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Interesting book but narrator ruins the experience

The book is quite interesting although perhaps not entirely worth the insane hype. It is definitely worth a read and a minority community that rightly deserves the attention. But the narrator ruins the experience of the book, she tends to be too fast or too incoherent or tries too hard to put on an accent that sometimes felt like she was mocking the culture. There were parts that were downright un-understandable. You should consider the physical copy over the audio.

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Interwoven stories about strong women

Amazing story telling of women of different ages, identities, social economic position get beautifully interwoven as a front for feminism.

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overrated but easy listen

The story is lovely, easy to listen stories about multiple women and their life. lot of good insights into LGBTQ life . but i do feel it is a bit overrated for booker prize.

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Delightful

Most beautiful tale(s) told in the most powerful voice. What a delight this was!

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Stories of women from various timelines

This book has many women with each having an interesting story. But so do many people around us if we look carefully. The author made the effort to identify, mould and then weave each story to bring them all together in this book. The first story may test your patience initially, but once the ball gets rolling, it keeps you immersed. I expected to read strong views on feminism, woman rights, liberation etc. But the book unabashedly calls out the stereotypes when they over-exploit these concepts. An ideas may be accepted or objected depending on the mindset and the era. Human ego, desires, sins and mercies are narrated without much judgement. One needs to assess their position of power (or privilege) before expecting every one to live a non conformist life. These woman have lived through it all and that makes this book deserving of all the applaud and appreciation.

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simply amazing!

This book is so clever, witty, insightful and so well written. It reads your mind and makes you ponder. The narrator is fantastic. I highly recommend the audio version. Thank you Bernadine Evaristo for this wonderful piece of work!

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