This is a highly recommended book for both this site, and more readers in wider circles. This novel shared the Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which is a book I didn’t particularly like at all, so the idea of it sharing this prize is especially galling to me. That said, there’s a kind of funny irony about Margaret Atwood, perhaps as a stand-in for “white feminism”, co-opting the celebration of this novel–a multi-voiced, multi-generational, highly-intelligent, Queer, witty, sympathetic, portrayal of twelve–mostly Black women–characters in […]