From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl,
Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's memoir of her own life and
writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and
activism Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic
and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black
woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its
fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of
the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into
thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million
readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a
vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo's life and career as
she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades
to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic
humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings,
with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother, tells the story
of how she helped set up Britain's first Black women's theatre
company, remembers the queer relationships of her twenties, and
recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the
literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful
perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class,
feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have
come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo
charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how
they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the
naysayers. Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text,
Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work
we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted.
Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from
first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph.
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