Shame

My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the 12-year-old girl who will become the author herself and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.

©1998, 2019 Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie - translation (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Very French, Very Catholic

As a boy raised Catholic in a small city in New York State in the 1950's, I have always felt that I understood Joyce's Dublin. I think my sister's would feel the same about Ernaux's small town 1950's France.

there is no story

most empty of content book I've ever heard. Chapter 4 ended abruptly and left me screaming in the car wtf? no story line, seemed like maybe it could go some where and it just stopped. so stupid.