Status Updates From Breasts and Eggs

“Cuando pienso en mi infancia, me da la sensación de haber estado siempre metida en una habitación tapándome los oídos.”

uh oh two Europa books in a row?! someone stop me 🤪

I am loving this novel! Writing about the morphing body throughout adolescence, aging, motherhood and postpartum through the eyes of a single writer in Tokyo, her mothering sister and her young daughter is incisive. The style of writing, the narrative, the subjects - all refreshing and engaging.

«But there was this other thing she said that really stuck with me. Even when a woman dies, she can't become a Buddha. Because women are supposedly dirty. A long time ago, all these important people wrote about how dirty women are, and why that's bad. So, basically, to become a Buddha, you have to be rebom as a man first. What the hell is that?»