La Bouquineuse boulimique

I really enjoyed Nightcrawling, so I was really anticipating this release.    Like in her previous novel, in  The Girls Who Grew Big ,  Mottley writes as her characters speak. There’s a rhythm to it. The language is sometimes crude, some passages are poetic.   Divided in three trimester, just like pregnancy,  The girls who grew big  is set in Padua Beach, Florida. We follow the lives of a group of mostly teenage mothers. There is three main girls. First,  Simone,  21 who lives in her truck with her four-year-old twins. Tooth, their father, is not really present. More preoccupied about himself than about his kids.    Then   there’s  Emory,  17, who somehow planned pregnancy. She lives with her grandparents and has been since her mom, who is addicted to drugs, abandoned her when she was little. She is white and her son Kai’s father is African American. This fact matters as her grandfather is racist.   Emery has nev...

English Version Below J'ai lu  Les biens aimés  en mars 2023, mais je n'ai rédigé qu'une partie de ma critique. J'aurais aimé en dire plus, mais j'ai accepté de ne pas avoir grand-chose à dire. Alors, c'est parti !   William Waters a grandi avec des parents qui ont perdu un enfant. Sa sœur est décédée. Ils auraient préféré qu'elle vive plutôt que lui. Ils ne lui ont jamais témoigné d'amour ni même d'intérêt. Il s'est mis au basket et s'est révélé si doué qu'il a obtenu une bourse universitaire. C'était l'occasion pour lui de quitter son foyer sans amour. C'est là qu'il a rencontré Julia, qu'il a ensuite épousée. Elle a trois sœurs, un père adoré et une mère très attachée à ses habitudes et très exigeante envers ses filles.   Les biens aimés  est un récit d'apprentissage qui aborde la perte, le deuil, la santé mentale, la famille et les attentes.  C’est une histoire fort intéressante sur l’absence d’amour, sur la di...

TW: drowning, death of a sibling, sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, racism, depression, drug use, terrorist  attacks, grieving If you're looking for a feel-good read, this is definitely not for you.   Twenty-seven-year-old Kora looses her younger sister, Kimia. She drowned in the ocean in Cabo San Lucas, in front of Kora. Her parents, particularly her mother, are mad at her cause they wanted her to protect her younger sister. She feels so guilty that she didn't save her.   Unable to be at home under these circumstances, she quits her job, books a one-way ticket to Iceland and goes to stay at a past fling’s house. Only telling her family that she's going to Iceland for a couple of weeks. She tries to down her sorrows in all sorts of excess, all around the world: Iceland, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Koh Pha Ngan, and Istanbul.   In full grievance, she tries to fill the emptiness with sex. Repeatedly chasing “the little death” (“la petite mort”, a French expression that ...