![]() She is able to show us how each person is flawed and simultaneously a victim and a perpetrator of abuse. Evaristo penetrates uncomfortable subject matter with ease and allows the reader to live in the spaces of empathy within the most egregious characters. There were moments that worked, mainly the sections with Daniel and Maxine interacting with Barry. ![]() It pains me to say that I did not enjoy reading this. Evaristo offers her signature hybrid of prose and poetry underpinned with themes of intergenerational strife, family dysfunction, secrecy, sexual identity, depression, and the clash of assimilation and the preservation of culture. The book moves from Barry’s first-person perspective to a second-person perspective about Carmel. It’s about a “Caribbean queen” named Barrington “Barry” Jedidiah Walker, husband to Carmel Walker, father to Maxine and Donna Walker, grandfather to Daniel, and closeted lover to his childhood buddy Morris. Loverman was a perfect novel to start reading during Pride month. It is my mission to read the rest of her bibliography before I die, which shouldn’t be too hard seeing as I’m 27 and she’s written a total of 8 novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo immediately became one of my favorite living writers. ![]()
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