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Highly recommended! (This is her first novel; I look forward to her subsequent work!)
A few impressive bits:
"I'm minded to pursue the current approach, given the sensitivities in this area, and reassess once we have greater visibility over how the strategy has been received," Will spoke, baritone and authoritative. "Urrrr," Genevieve's voice grumbled, … "is your Grand Plan of Action that you will carry on as usual and see what happens?" Adele and I stifled snorts as Will stammered his way through her dressing down. p162
"You know, it's so messed up he calls us girls," she fumed … I trained for seven fucking years to be here." [They're both lawyers at a huge firm.] "Ah! … But Sheryl Sandberg told us to LEAN IN! So, I guess we must be the problem?" p163
"You're a young woman in the corporate world: some of these men see the fact of your existence as an offering." p199
"So much of what is perceived to be 'intelligence' was Kit talking in a deep, male voice, being white and educated, and packaging up abhorrent views in grandiloquent, pretentious language. Men like Kit had been groomed from birth to speak the vernacular of success." p316
What's the word for the people who menstruate though? Do they share a word? Why don't they have a word yet, after thousands of years and the development of human language? Calling these people "menstruators" seems so clumsy and clinical, maybe even dehumanizing; other mammals could be called "menstruators," so how do we distinguish these folks with a word that humanizes them? Gee, it's just so weird they don't have a word.
Also, I wanna know if "menstruators" are always menstruators, or just when they are menstruating.