Black Forest by Valérie Mréjen, translated by Katie Shireen Assef [in Library Journal]
26 Nov, by in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, French, Translation
This English-language debut from French writer/filmmaker Valérie Mréjen opens with a nameless suicide: a man “decides he’s old enough” and replaces the disco ball with rope. The story, however, begins with a divorced father who determines that his children are lacking suitable New Year’s Eve...