Tahmima Anam: ‘A lot of my feminist rage was born when I read The Bell Jar’ | Books
My earliest reading memoryMy first language is Bangla, and I can remember my father reading Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala – about a refugee who longs for his daughter – and trying to figure out the letters.My favourite book growing upThe Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone, starring Sesame Street’s Grover. It has it all – an unreliable narrator, a great buildup of suspense, and a twist at the end.The book that changed me as a teenagerI read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath when I was only 12 years old. The scene…