Reading the Booker Prize longlist #10 – Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker winning Girl, Woman, Other book review

Booker Prize, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Bernadine_Evaristo_Girl_Woman_Other_Booker_Prize_Winner_Shortlist_Book_Review‘What if she’s slated by the critics? dismissed with a consensus of one-star reviews, what was the great National thinking allowing this rubbishy imposter into the building?

of course she knows she’s not an imposter, she’s written fifteen plays and directed over forty, and as a critic once wrote, Amma Bonsu is a safe pair of hands who’s known to pull off risks

what if the preview audiences who gave standing ovations were just being kind?

oh shut up, Amma, you’re a veteran battle-axe, remember?’