A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation Prize. A 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 the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine. ).