🌟 "Orlanda" by Jacqueline Harpman

I read the Dutch translation, translated from the French by Eveline van Hemert. Available in English with the same title, translated by Ros Schwartz. Girlhood is rough, and being a woman is not much easier. Don't express this, don't do that, don't show this, don't pursue that. For some it's a lifetime of pushing down genuine personality traits and interests in favor of becoming what society deems…