Women Who Run with the Wolves

Stories are so powerful. Women are so powerful. This is the feminist literature we need in today’s skewed, postmodernist wave of patriarchy-defined-but-pretending-to-be-female-empowered feminism. Estes elaborately dissects every story she tells, each character considered to be another aspect of a woman’s internal psyche, alluding to a female-tailored version of IFS but under a different and older moniker. The cycles of birth, death, and rebirth; the wisdom of wild, older women; stories as healing medicine - these themes all speak to something innate and long forgotten in modern society. Her writing is laden with spirituality and wisdom. I loved it. It is, however, a slow burn of a read, one that requires careful thought and pause between stories to fully absorb their impact.

I think it would benefit to read “The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir”, by Sarah Ramey alongside this genre-defying book.