Louise Chennevière's new novel weighs the bond between mothers and daughters
In "Faire la peau," published for this year's rentrée littéraire, the author of "Pour Britney" turns to more personal territory, according to a review in En attendant Nadeau.
Louise Chennevière returns this rentrée littéraire with "Faire la peau," a novel that takes up the fraught, sometimes violent relationship between mothers and daughters, according to En attendant Nadeau.
The site notes that the book is more personal than "Pour Britney," the earlier work that drew attention to Chennevière's writing. But the review also finds that "Faire la peau" struggles to settle the balance between narrative and analysis, moving between telling a story and standing back to examine it.
En attendant Nadeau frames the book around the question of a daughter's right to love a mother less than she is supposed to — the piece is titled "Le droit d'aimer moins." Beyond that framing and the comparison to her previous novel, no further detail on plot, structure or publisher is given in the source material.
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