Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Library Journal Best Book of 2021A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged moth...
A remarkable novel drawn from life about a Frenchwoman’s efforts to come to terms with the legacy of her father and grandfather, both powerful forces who left a mark on their country’s culture but whose incorrigible womanizing also left a complex...