A Woman’s Battles and Transformations

Édouard Louis

 Change – In this slim volume, Édouard Louis writes movingly of his mother and her transformation from embattled Mom tending to a husband and several children in a Marine Le Pen-loving village in northern France to a woman, with a new partner, rising above her past through her new life in Paris. As always with Louis, he explores the patriarchal, class-structured society and attempts to understand the woman his mother was and is. The book was translated from French to English by Tash Aw.