Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today's interview is with Bernadine

Averisto about her book, Girl, Woman, Other. It was a blow-up book for her. She won prizes and got all

these accolades and became an overnight success. Except that last part isn't really true.

Everisto actually recently published a memoir, and it opens talking about how weird it is to be

considered an overnight success when you've been in the game for four decades.

And in this interview with NPR Scott Simon from back in 2019, she talks about how the

Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements really shifted people's

perception of art made by black British women, but also how the book was an attempt to show

how varied the lives of Black British women could be.

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Bernadine Everistow's novel girl, woman, other, is just being published in the United States

after sharing Britain's Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. It follows 12

characters whose lives touch each other or come

close or sometimes nowhere near and gives flesh and blood portraits of people who are often

introduced with hyphens like Amma, a socialist lesbian playwright, and Megan Morgan, who is

non-binary, and winsome, a Barbadian Anglo-immigrant and unhappy wife.

Bernardine Evaristo, a great writer who's Anglo-Nigerian, joins us from London.

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