A review by heddagobbler
A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis

5.0

— "The story of my mother starts with a dream: she was going to be a cook."

— "She was desperate to deny reality, and yet I could see it—she regarded the destiny of her sons as a dreadful repetition of the mechanisms that had crushed her own life, as the unbreakable cycle of a curse."