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Welcome to Bad Women season 3!We're back for another season with three new works of fiction, where we will focus on three new unsympathetic, angry, and tired female protagonists.
Like last season, we will be comparing themes, character arcs, and storylines across three works of fiction. This winter, we will be reading Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (2022), Yellowface by R. F. Kuang (2023), and Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (2024).
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Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (2022)
When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace—a manufacturer of cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups—because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. (Powered by Storygraph)
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Yellowface by R. F. Kuang (2023)
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. (Powered by Storygraph)
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Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (2024)
A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.“Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.” In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life and become her, as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to survive, telling their own stories in bold, unapologetic voices. (Powered by Storygraph)
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The goal of the book club is to be able to cross-compare the three books (and maybe even the novels of our book club’s two previous seasons), but feel free to join us for one, two, or all of the meet-ups.

The books will be available for purchase at our bookshop. If you want us to reserve one for you, shoot us a message!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Møllegade 10, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark, Møllegade 10, 2200 København N, Danmark,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark
