A debut novel revisits America's eugenics era
Marouane Essadek's first novel, out in this year's rentrée littéraire, follows a young American woman caught up in early-twentieth-century eugenics debates.
Marouane Essadek publishes his debut novel, Mon corps donné pour vous, as part of the 2026 rentrée littéraire, according to En attendant Nadeau. The book traces the history of eugenics in the United States at the start of the twentieth century.
At its center is a young American woman who becomes, against her will, a focal point of the scientific and legal debates that surrounded eugenic theory and policy in that period, En attendant Nadeau reports.
The outlet gives no further detail on the novel's structure, length or publisher. This is the extent of what is known so far.
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