irisfilipaafonso 14/08/2022
Genius book where all three short stories show one thing in common: the way these three women's lives revolved around other people - parents, children and most of all, husband - which was ultimately the cause of their despair. They molded their personality, their schedule, their life around these people making them their whole being, nothing else mattered, not their interests or studies, not their hobbies or their personality. Everything about these book shows the bad in the motherly side in women, the obsession around these beliefs they were educated to live by and how that ended in them being utterly alone in the end no matter how much they dedicated their life to them.
Most characters were seriously unlikeable but I still felt empathetic with most of them because the bottom line is - as a woman, the experiences you have while being raised will somehow relate these stories to you or someone you know.