By Tengku Vriska Adelia Putri
A collection of short stories, all three of which potray the life of middle aged women experiencing an identity crisis.
The first story was bittersweet, the second was ferocious and the third just made me furious. Beauvoir’s characters are incredibly complex. These are women who sacrificed their individuality for the sake of family, only to be robbed of it once again after decades of dedication. Having reached a dead-end, they need to reconstruct themselves from the ground up while their significant others comfortably get on with their lives.