A review by champers4days
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

2.0

A Short History of Women began with a cute concept: the book followed female family members across five generations. The writing was good and the characters were fairly interesting, but the snap shots of each woman's life were too brief for me to remember or truly differentiate one generation from the next. I never understood the motivations behind some of the character's most poignant acts, so a lot of the 'action' felt hollow. By the end of the book, I could have sworn I read five short stories that had survived a fateful encounter with a blender...