When she learns of her husband's liaison with a young girl, Mia, poet, fifties, "loses it" and finds himself interned in psychiatry. After a period of therapy, she leaves, the summer time, in his home town, take refuge with his mother who lives in her retirement home. Mia will gradually regain control of herself and her life. The writing that it agrees to animate and 7 teenagers participating workshop as well as the famous team formed by his mother and her friends will give him a sense strand to its existence. It will also be aided, away this time by her daughter and her therapist. It will support to turn his young neighbor, overwhelmed by her two small children and her unstable husband. The novel describes Mia who observes these generations of women, which occurs itself. A common point of all: the vulnerability. The physically frail older is often the measure of their regrets and memories, psycho-drama that is played between shows that teens that age can be cruel, but stupid as pure and so fragile. The story is not depressing however paradoxically it is the valiant octogenarian who lead by example and do not let themselves be discouraged by the miseries of the age. And the end of the summer soften tensions ... Let's be clear, this novel is not a favorite for me, and I have not eaten. But I did like: some characters are touching, funny, annoying (oh those teens!), And self-mockery of the narrator is rather funny. Men are actually absent, but on balance we can not help talking about them The narrative is not always chronological narration alternates classic and exchanges of e-mails, philosophical considerations and nimble phrases, sometimes addresses the reader, and superimposes the episodes between Mia and each "category" of characters. To advise all those interested a little bit to the psychology of women ...
