A happy event
“From then on, my life no longer belonged to me, I was nothing but a hollow, an emptiness, a nothingness. I was now a mother.”
Violent, heartfelt and immodest, Eliette Abécassis’s new novel shatters the taboos around motherhood, this “happy event” that may just be a fabricated ideology. Following on from Mon père and Clandestin, the novelist’s tone is increasingly personal, combining fiction with a subversive analysis of society.
