“It isn’t important if the story was ever true. Bit manipulates images: he knows stories don’t need to be factual to be vital.” Bit est né dans une communauté hippie : Arcadia. Au cœur de la nature, un groupe de femmes et d’hommes tentent d’y vivre selon leurs valeurs et loin du monde. Amours libres, […]

Editions Hutchinson Heinemann. “But now she sensed the earth under her in its spin and knew herself to be a piece of it, necessary and large enough. For a long moment, she saw herself lying in the very center of the palm of god’s hand, and the night was made of god’s fingers curved to […]

Windmill Books « Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied to Lotto in what she never said. » Lotto le beau gosse séducteur […]

@penguinbooks « Mostly, however, I see the mothers I know in glimpses, bent like shepherdess crooks, scanning the floor for tiny Legos or half-chewed grapes or the people they once were, slumped in the corners.«  Ce recueil rassemble onze nouvelles troublantes se passant en Floride autour de figures féminines au bord de la rupture ou de […]

@penguinbooks « As I touched the beast I remembered how, even on that long-ago night, I could feel a tremendous thing moving in the depths below me, something vast and white and singing.«  Etudiante un peu égarée, Willie revient au bercail maternel enceinte de son directeur de thèse. Au même moment le cadavre d’une créature inconnue […]

Riverhead books « Only when she has re-created in ink upon parchment what she saw does she fully understand it. Visions are not complete until they have been set down and stepped away from, turned this way and that in the hand.«  Pour l’éloigner, la reine envoie dans une abbaye reculée une jeune bâtarde dont elle […]