Beautiful and touching ...

In this story uncompromising, upsetting, deep and modest, lauteure paints a beautiful portrait of his mother.
Beyond this portrait of this rich and complex relationship between this singular mother and daughter, this book addresses more universal subjects: uprooting, loss, happiness, illness, death, love ... This is One of the strengths of this book yet concise, richness as to the feelings and themes.
Without artifice, dune chiseled writing, Sophie Avon emotion brought forth to detour dune sentence at the end of a chapter, and several times she touched me deep inside.