MANIFESTO On Never Giving Up

Bernadine Evaristo, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER, narrates her new memoir with an actor's skill and an author's emotional engagement. Speaking in an attractively husky voice, with exquisite enunciation and pacing, Evaristo mines her life to explore what it's like to grow up visually different in majority white England. The daughter of a Black Nigerian father and a white English Catholic mother, Evaristo was the middle child in a large family that lived in an eccentric house in a working-class London neighborhood. Biracial, forthright, tall, and, for a time, lesbian, she stood out even when trying to fit in. Honest, smart, and often very funny, Evaristo is a captivating and enlightening woman to spend time with. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2022]