Girl, Woman, Other

The overall structure of the story revolves around the narratives of 12 women (and others) who share three common elements: (1) they are of African descent, (2) they are biologically female (and, as indicated by the title’s mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive terms—"women," "girls," and "others"—this includes LGBT individuals), and (3) living in the UK—are told with care, each intertwining gradually with the others. This narrative style forms the core of the book’s appeal and...