A Woman’s Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis review – portrait of a mother’s darkest days - The Guardian

The candid French novelist is torn between sympathy and hurt in this quietly heartbreaking memoir about his mother’s troubled early adulthood

French writer Édouard Louis made his debut with The End of Eddy (2017), a novel drawn from his torrid experience of growing up gay in a working-class village in northern France. Yet more distressing … [+5284 chars]

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