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Monday, July 1, 2024
Book Review: A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi
A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Family ISBN: 9798889660248 Print Length: 288 pages Publisher: Europa Editions Reviewed by Frankie Martinez Emma never wanted a sister: "I won't lend her my…
Emma never wanted a sister: "I won't lend her my toys. But I do like her teddy." After Agathe is born, trouble follows close behind, leading with their parents' sudden divorce and their father's unexpected death.
Agathe crawls into Emma's bed for comfort every night as children, and Emma feels the burden of being her caretaker hang heavy on her shoulders. Her only respite? The idyllic summers that she and Agathe spent with their grandmother in the Basque Country, away from the abuse at the hands of their mother.
Years later, Emma and Agathe reunite for one more summer at their Mima's house in Anglet shortly after she passes. Well into adulthood with their own separate lives—Emma with a family of her own and Agathe with a career she loves—the sisters do their best to keep things light. However, the resale of their beloved grandmother's home and the finality of what feels like their last summer together looms over them, along with the ghosts of the very recent past, including Emma's refusal to speak to their mother and Agathe's tremendous struggles with mental health.
Bittersweet and nostalgic, A Good Life is the story of two siblings struggling desperately to make peace with each other after living through harsh circumstances together. Told in first-person and switching between Agathe and Emma's perspectives in both the past and the present, Grimaldie renders a portrait of a troubled family both tender and heart-wrenching.
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