num_pages: 96
description: Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris."She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she to portray her as the individual she was. She writes, "I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."
language: English
title: A Woman's Story
titlecomplete: A Woman's Story
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Feminism, Womens, Biography, Memoir, Nobel Prize, France, French Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9279
places: France
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Seven Stories Press