The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a promising young woman whose life slowly gives way to alienation, depression, and a crisis of identity.
Books by Women Writers
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quiet, reflective novel about a middle-aged woman who leaves Sydney, returns to her childhood town, and lives in an abbey.
Greek Lessons
Han Kang’s Greek Lessons is a quiet, unsettling novel about silence, language, loss, memory, and the fragile ways human beings try to reach one another.
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir about her mother Mary Roy, their complex relationship, Roy’s writing life, politics, memory, and becoming a writer.
The Incarcerations
Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations examines the Bhima Koregaon case, the BK-16, planted evidence, dissent, democracy, and the targeting of activists in India.