A Girl's Story
by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
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“This book goes back to her time at summer camp in Normandy in 1958, and her first traumatic sexual experience that she had never made sense of. She returns to that event and its repercussions in her life over the years. What I loved about this book in particular was in the craft of it. She talks about herself as that girl in the third person. She carries the memories and repercussions, but that girl is almost a stranger to her.” Read more...
Tyler Wetherall, Memoirist
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