“A summer without full moon”, Marie-Eve Brassard

We open Marie-Ève Brassard’s first novel and we can find it closing. Similarly, Emma, 38, vacillates when the man with whom she has lived for three years announces that he does not want children. Nevertheless, Has she never asked herself the question at the front: does she want her? Moreover, Stay with the love of your life or leave to try the adventure of maternity? However, In both cases, mourning is to be done. Emma withdrew for a summer to think. supported by her accomplices Ani and Val, who carry diametrically opposite looks on maternity. Throughout their exchanges. the narrator (moreover very sympathetic) examines her desire for maternity under all her angles: biological clock, selfishness, social look, body, finances, aging. A sincere. funny and resolutely contemporary self -fiction, which analyzes the hesitations of a generation torn between freedom and the desire for “a summer without full moon”, transmission. This accessible. well written book will particularly resonate among readers in the grip of the same existential questions related to maternity.

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