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n pril nnie rnaux’s mother after years of suffering from lzheimer’s disease died in a retirement home in the suburbs of aris hocked by this loss which despite her mother’s condition she had refused to fathom rnaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author’s own social ascent
irroring an’s lace in which she narrates her father’s slow rise to material comfort oman’s tory explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter its fluctuation over the course of their lives the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love n this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born rnaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can to portray her as the individual she was
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