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A butterfly, a beetle, a rose by Aimee Bender: a gentle meditation on time

2021-01-20T15:19:27.306Z


THE CHRONICLE OF ERIC NEUHOFF - In this novel, against a background of madness, Aimee Bender manages to make mental illness palpable, daily, heartbreaking.


Obviously there is a problem.

At 8, Francie understood this.

His mother is not normal.

The girl feels the crisis coming.

Mom's actions are no longer the same.

The voice changes.

Medication is no longer enough.

When her mother crushes her hand with a hammer, the doctors send her to a psychiatric hospital.

The girl is entrusted to her aunt, who will give birth that day to little Vicky.

Today, the narrator is 28 years old.

She works in a framing store, but makes ends meet by auctioning off items she has found in garage sales at auction.

Buyers award it stars, up to five.

The plot goes back and forth between the past and today.

Francie puts the pieces back together.

She is afraid of going mad too.

There was this butterfly that had come loose from a patterned lampshade (she drank the glass of water in which it had failed), these dried roses that fell from a curtain decorated with flowers, this dead beetle

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Source: lefigaro

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