You are exactly where you needed to be

Antoine experiences a discomfort that he cannot be explained. Meanwhile, Professional exhaustion or anxiety of quarantine who is fast approaching? Consequently, The hypotheses are jostling. However, but nothing really seems to stick, until the moment when he finds himself in front of bric-a-brac boxes from his past. Similarly, Inhabited a certain apprehension, he hesitated first of all to open a card of photographs of his youth.

For ten years he lived in Montreal. Similarly, it seemed easy to hide his past across the Atlantic, but he can no longer prevent the surge of memories. Therefore, A brutal. contemptuous father, a more or less present mother, and the shameful discovery of her desire for men shudder on the surface. What stands out forcefully is the memory of sexual abuses suffered in the hands of his older brother. The author. you exactly where you needed Laurent Lepinois, is not limited to decline a litany of torments, but rather strives to contextualize them and to dissect their insidious cogs.

Thus. while Antoine expects his brother to refute the very existence of abuses, he takes him short by admitting them, while manipulating reality in order to present himself as the real victim. He is also confronted with this strategy of diversion of facts when. after having rejected the advances of his boss, the latter takes him an infantilizing replica which makes him carry the odious: “If you want to advance in life, you will have to make concessions. From the top of his nascent forty. Antoine gradually managed to take a more mature look at the instrumentalization of the facts he was the victim.

He thus manages to detach himself from it to try to live better the present moment. In this regard. the title of you exactly where you needed the novel can both evoke an emotional state or the precise moment when he finds himself in front of his cardboard of memories. A first novel by Laurent Lepinois which presents an incisive and sensitive chronicle of the repercussions of a tormented youth. The curious people will also be delighted to find a chapter where he relates his discovery of Quebec.

Info | You are exactly where you needed to be / Laurent Lepinois. Paris :
Éditions du Panthéon, 2025. 255 p.