A Woman's Battles and Transformations
Isabella’s Review:
Louis’s other book, ‘Who Killed my Father’, which is not only the story of a very difficult father/son relationship, but also and just as importantly a reflection / indictment of French society, just blew me away. The one pictured here, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, is a somewhat ‘kinder’ but equally absorbing story of his mother.
Louis has also written excellent auto fiction and with everything that is going on in France, it feels timely and important that we try to understand the (vast) swaths of the country that don’t ever show up in tourist guides.
A portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free.
This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives―and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, “one of France’s most widely read and internationally successful novelists” (The New York Times Magazine).
