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Tomorrow I Become a Woman
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I didn't dislike this book and it also lets you read it rather quickly because it is written in a fluent manner, despite frequent forays into Yoruba language or some other Nigerian dialect completely unknown to me.
What I didn't like, however, was the plot; it seems to me that I have read this plot, with some minor variations on the theme, in every book of the genre published in the last 10 years from Chimamanda 'ngozie Adichie onward. Is it possible that the lives of African American women are all like this? Overbearing fathers, husbands who beat them, mothers who don't help them, and always hovering between an animist-tribal past and a future that in any case does not look rosy because they are women and black?
Questo libro non mi é dispiaciuto e si lascia anche leggere piuttosto in fretta perché é scritto in modo scorrevole, nonostante le frequenti incursioni in lingua yoruba o qualche altro dialetto nigeriano a me completamente sconosciuto.
Quello che peró non mi é piaciuta é la trama, mi sembra di aver letto questa trama con alcune piccole variazioni sul tema, in ogni libro del genere pubblicato negli ultimi 10 anni a partire da Chimamanda 'ngozie Adichie in poi. Possibile che la vita delle donne afro-americane sia tutta cosí? Padri padroni, mariti che le picchiano, madri che non le aiutano e sempre in bilico tra un passato animista-tribale ed un futuro che comunque non si presenta roseo perché donne e nere?
What I didn't like, however, was the plot; it seems to me that I have read this plot, with some minor variations on the theme, in every book of the genre published in the last 10 years from Chimamanda 'ngozie Adichie onward. Is it possible that the lives of African American women are all like this? Overbearing fathers, husbands who beat them, mothers who don't help them, and always hovering between an animist-tribal past and a future that in any case does not look rosy because they are women and black?
Questo libro non mi é dispiaciuto e si lascia anche leggere piuttosto in fretta perché é scritto in modo scorrevole, nonostante le frequenti incursioni in lingua yoruba o qualche altro dialetto nigeriano a me completamente sconosciuto.
Quello che peró non mi é piaciuta é la trama, mi sembra di aver letto questa trama con alcune piccole variazioni sul tema, in ogni libro del genere pubblicato negli ultimi 10 anni a partire da Chimamanda 'ngozie Adichie in poi. Possibile che la vita delle donne afro-americane sia tutta cosí? Padri padroni, mariti che le picchiano, madri che non le aiutano e sempre in bilico tra un passato animista-tribale ed un futuro che comunque non si presenta roseo perché donne e nere?
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Oct 26, 2022 01:28PM
Quick correction: This book is Nigerian and of Nigerian women, not African American women. But yeah, it speaks for many women. The story is familiar but a necessary one. If we don't tell our stories, who will?
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Maybe I was not clear, I know this is a Nigerian book about Nigerians women and I understand the need to tell your stories, it just seems to me that it is hard to find a different plot in books about black women and I know for a fact, that they have also different lives. And I mean no disrespect, but I know and meet very successful and happy black women in my life.
