num_pages: 198
description: 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 activismBernardine 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.
language: English
title: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
publisher: Grove Press