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Black Forest

Published
Oct 2019
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Literary Literary
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Pages
80

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A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty – five years dead? Valérie Mr éjen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn ' t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr éjen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning—or non–meaning— along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr éjen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious.

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First Edition Oct 2019 Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN 1944700900
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Oct 2019 Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN B07WRF6VQQ
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Oct 2019 Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN 1646050215
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