womanhood

Out on Friday, A Complicated Woman is an attempt to capture womanhood in all its complexities and contradictions – and that means moving through musical genres, modes and attitudes with almost whiplash-inducing speed.

It wouldn’t be touching on deeper points — about womanhood, art, the body.

It kicks off Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, following the intimate and complicated friendship that is also a commentary on class and womanhood.

Wonder also breezes in, with a billionaire’s crash landing into a swimming pool, a fabulous debut novel about womanhood and a gorgeous cookbook that celebrates California’s bounty.

After she gets her surgeries, there’s a time jump, and we don’t get to see how Emilia comes to understand being a woman, how womanhood changes her perspective.