A book of mourning told through a coolly evocative series of life (and death) vignettes, from a lauded French writer, now in English for the first time; #34;Six Feet Under" meets Georges Perec "Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance...With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade... she shows that absence can also be a form of presence."—Marine Landrot, Télérama

"A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk... Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible."—Eric Chevillard, Le Monde

"If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman."—Jean–Luc Douin, Le Monde

Featured in Elle France as a "Top Ten" book. They raved, " [This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side— The subject here is death."

"A masterful and delicate book...Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. " —A.N., l'Humanité