Book Recs | #002 Women and Madness

🔽 Book reviews and notes 🔽
Here are 3 books picked by me, akapan, to pile up in your bookshelf to create an amazing tsundoku, or actually read them, of course.

Women and Madness
Women against the social expectations

 

1. The Woman Dies
Aoko Matsuda, 2021
Japan
女が死ぬ
松田青子
[my comment]
In Japan it's still normal to say "typically female" or "it talks to the female sensitivity" in ads or magazines. These women won't give in. Anger, fabulous.
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2. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, 2017
US
400 pages
[my comment]
It starts slowly in everyone. 2 families, opposite ideals, and different mothers different daughters with different fates.
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3. Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, 1925
UK
240 pages
[my comment]
Clarissa is on the verge of falling apart, she's physically unwell but holds it together, on the outside. Nothing seems to happen, yet there's a storm in her head.
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