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A Woman's Battles and Transformations

A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Louis, Édouard
Aw, Tash

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Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1250872154
ISBN13: 9781250872159
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.50 Depth: 7.10
Language: English

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author's mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.

One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, Édouard knew only his mother's sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken?

Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind to start anew in Paris.

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power--and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an honoring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms.

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