Have read this before, but tried to read it more seriously/critically, in view of the book group meeting later this week.
Not really sure what to make of it second time round; it is very different, feminist, multi-race and transexual and therefore probably very appealing if you are a black (or white) feminist, bisexual or your sexuality is ‘open.’
There are lots of individually interesting characters in it, or more accurately characters who are born or thrown into interesting and challenging situations. But although there is some inter-relationship between the characters, some of whom are parents/grandparents/ daughters of each other, it is essentially a book about twelve different women, with no real narrative. Nor are there any men other than peripheral to the women in it.
So challenging and different, but maybe a bit of a polemic?
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