"Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of a group of black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain, and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central character of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explorers her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is an investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a ninety-three-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable character also intersect in aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class."-- Inside jacket