Mädchen, Frau, etc

In "Girl, Woman, etc." Bernardine Evaristo weaves the stories of black women over a century into a unique and multi-voiced panorama of our time. An impressive novel about origins and identity that reminds us of what holds us together. Playwright Amma is on the verge of a breakthrough. In her first production at London's National Theatre, she grapples with her identity as a black, lesbian woman. Her good friend Shirley, on the other hand, is burnt out after decades of working in underfunded London schools. Carole owes a lot to Shirley, her former teacher, who now works as a successful investment banker. Carole's mother Bummi also wants to stand on her own two feet and starts a cleaning company. She grew up in poor circumstances in Nigeria and gave her daughter Carole an English first name for good reasons. Even though the women, their roles and life stories in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman etc. are very different, their decisions, their struggles, their questions never stand alone, they all tell of the desire to find a place in this world.