Noémi Lefebvre

After two virtuoso books revisiting the art of interior monologue, Noémi Lefebvre published L’Enfance politique (2015; A Political Childhood). A highly political novel with a grand burlesque vitality and a sharp style, it follows a 40-something narrator who takes refuge with her mother after a new disaster in her chaotic existence. Moving between domestic and historical follies, this brilliantly constructed novel charts the oppressive closeness of a mother and daughter.