Review: Ten Women

Ten Women by Marcela Serrano
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a book I received through Amazon's World Book Day promotion in 2018.

I found this book to be interesting while reading it, but totally forgettable. In fact, I basically forgot everything about this in the short four months it has been since I finished the book. I didn't really make a strong connection to any of the ten women sharing their stories, and I didn't really see a strong takeaway from the book. I guess that is part of the danger of trying to write a review so long after reading a book.

The framing of the stories as vignettes told by each woman in a group therapy session was a clever way to tie everything together and perhaps helps alleviate some of the stigma associated with seeking therapy.

I find it very intriguing that so many of the reviews of the book are written in Arabic. As far as I can tell, it looks like the original language for this book is Spanish, but I guess there was some strong marketing in the Arab community as well?

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