Literary return to school 2023: 4 novels recommended by feminist booksellers

Literary return to school 2023: 4 novels recommended by feminist booksellers

In the fall, one of our favorite little pleasures is strolling through feminist bookstores. Through the shelves and the notes left on a post-it, we discover the advice of those who devoured these books before us. On Madmoizelle we have collected some of these reviews, calibrated for readers looking for works by, about and for women.

The booksellers of a Book and a cup You we have prepared a tailor-made selection for our readers.

L’indésir, Joséphine Tassy (L’iconoclaste editions)

It was one of the titles we had noticed for a while. It is signed by Joséphine Tassy, ​​a researcher in development economics originally from Marseille and Martinique. At 25 years old she signed this first novel, “a story of an unknown mother, an ambivalent mother, a missing mother. » BooksellersA book and a cup of tea tell us inside The unwanted ;

The narrator takes us on her day-long journey with the taste of the day after the evening to meet this mother of a thousand faces and to the various protagonists of its story. »

This search for identity also marks the advent “from an author to follow closely. »

Literary return to school 2023: 4 novels recommended by feminist booksellers

The Sea of ​​Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Shore)

The amateurs autumnal atmospheres tinged with fantasy they will have no problem immersing themselves in this gripping story of time travel.

It all starts in 2401, in the Caiette Woods, north of Vancouver Island. Passers-by report the hearing a lullaby played on the violin, accompanied by a rustling sound reminiscent of a flying machine taking off. This strange phenomenon questions Zoey, a brilliant physicist. Is the world as it is just a simulation?

“During these stories traversed in time, the novelist’s words discover the intimate truths of existence.

The magic of this book it lies in the gallery of the characters, their feelings and the atmosphere these universes that are falling apart. »

It doesn’t take anything else to make us want it.

The sea of ​​tranquility

A world dirtier than me, Capucine Delattre (The city burns)

This is another novel that gets all the attention. A world dirtier than me is the “a moving story of a 17-year-old girl at the beginning of the MeToo movement. »

With “Chilling pragmatism and cutting cynicism”Capucine Delattre gives voice “to a generation of women who are trying to find their place outside the chains of the “good victim” or the “woman in love”. »

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La Réverdie, Louise Browaeys (The Salt Sea)

In her obsessive quest to free greenery from advertising slogans, Louise falls in love with a man. She catches the little lights of everyday life and cut the hardness of a woman’s life with pruning shears. Agreements launched on our aging bodies, on desire, on living, on separations, on persevering love. A breath of greenery and literature to courageously inhabit the world.

“La Reverdie” is Louise Browaeys’ third novel story of rare literary sensitivity. A true research Who questions our relationship with the living and resonates with the times, brought by a charismatic author.

La-Reverdie

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