You have to follow it. Caroline Bongrand digresses quickly. Between an anecdote about her father, a former resistance fighter and her disgust for macaroons, she suddenly talks about her teeth. “Dentists have always told me that I have extraordinarily long teeth roots. My body is also looking for its origins! ” she laughs at a cup of hot milk.
An investigation where we follow the writer through his emotional and family adventuresWelcome to the world of this beautiful 50-year-old girl with a tender but worried look, always on the alert. On a daily basis, as in her latest book What We Are (Denoël), this writer oscillates between her existential questions, feelings on the surface and a mysticism to make Saint Thomas shudder. "She is uprooted with family gray areas , " warns one of her many friends. With this intimate book, close to autobiography, Bongrand goes in search of his family history that he misses so much. “You need a place to make a family. We need a land, even regretted, even imaginary or, failing that, promised. In
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