Amma, Dominique, Yazz, Shirley, Carole, Bummi, LaTisha, Megan who became Morgan, Hattie, Penelope, Winsome, Grace.

There are more black women in this book than Bernardine Evaristo saw on television during her entire childhood. The youngest is nineteen, the oldest, ninety-three.

Twelve powerful women, apostles of feminism and freedom, each in her own way, from one end of the century to the other, seek a future, a home, love, a lost father, an absent mother, an identity, a gender – he, she, iel – an existence and, in passing, happiness.

Lush, symphonic, written in a style as free and lively as its heroines, Bernardine Evaristo's novel follows its title: Girl, Woman, Other ...

Twelve stories intertwine, answer each other, rhyme and reason. Twelve lives support and oppose each other. Each of the twelve is in search and conquest, of place, of class, of traces, of herself, of others, of this other in her who has already crossed many borders, and has the nerve to want to explode those that remain.

“ The ‘other’ in the title can be interpreted in multiple ways. It could mean that women are made other in certain situations, simply by being women, or that some of them are considered other because they are women of color, or queer/trans, or working class, or immigrants .”
Bernardine Evaristo

“A lucid, breathtaking novel about the contemporary challenges faced by women, girls and others…”
The Washington Post