not every story hits as hard, but some really strike a nerve. she's one of the best short story writers i've ever read. i love the little glimpses into people's lives and my favourite one so far was the sweets shop one. i get that novels are still more popular now than short stories but i really wish she would get a revival of interest and be more well known again 🙁

sad that she ended up forgotten :((

"despite her pride of place in history and despite the exceptional beauty of her hymns, the world has forgotten about Enheduana. Western literary history instead begins with Homer, a man who sang his songs some fifteen hundred years after her death."

this book is written from a perspective that i wouldn't usually relate to, a young mother with young kids whose live very much revolves around being a stay at home mother (unfathomable for me)

and to be honest, this perspective usually would put me of from reading, but for some reason i stay glued to the pages, because i feel the fervor she has to this other, much older, female author, to this old text that almost feels mythical.

i'm looking at Doireann (living a very different life from me) who's looking at Eibhlín (living a very different life from her) and there's a red string running through all 3 of us