Brilliant Prose

The search for someone to blame/ Margaret Atwood

The search for someone to blame/ Margaret Atwood

In that vanished country of mine, things had been on a downward spiral for years. People became frightened and then angry. The search for someone to blame. Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we’d been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Hurry up! / Leila Slimani

Hurry up! / Leila Slimani

Her colleagues never ask Myriam to accompany them for a drink after work and are surprised at the nights she spends at the office. “But you do have children, don’t you?” One morning, when a teacher called her to tell her about a silly incident between Mila and a classmate, Myriam apologized for missing recent […]