A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
A reminder of organized narrative’s simple power ... A rousing feminist manifesto.
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Staggering ... A lyrical book about monstrous events, a compelling exploration of what it feels like to hold two existences in your brain at once.
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Terrifically tense ... How immediately apparent the narrative’s dense, layered architecture, its impatience with ready-made language and scripts for sexual violence ... What Pelicot does, brilliantly and subtly, is to ask the question most avoid — not who, but how? With a kind of coolness and deliberation that feels aided by age, she explores the mechanisms by which one can become so practiced at turning away unwanted knowledge. And she is at her most devastating when she presents what she still cannot face.
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