A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation PrizeA Woman''s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the i ...

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation PrizeA Woman''s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free.This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives—and with t