J’ai montré toutes mes pattes blanches je n’en ai plus

Written as one long letter to her brother, recently dead, the book tells of her grief, of how hard it is to live without him and to know him alone among the dead he never knew. It also tells of their childhood, lived outside reality, dragged along by a father who was sometimes delirious and ill at ease with life, a brilliant mathematician in an era when nobody talked about mental illness and treatments could be violent. In the suburbs, the children of such men had to hold on and hope they would not be carried off to the land of things going very wrong.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

198 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2021 by Éditions Somme toute

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9782897941888 (original)