All Happy Families

A Memoir by the Bestselling Author of The Anomaly

Author  Hervé Le Tellier Translated by  Adriana Hunter
All Happy Families

New York Times Bestselling and Goncourt Prize-Winning Author of The Anomaly

A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships.

Hervé Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child—he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, driven by their even greater love of life.
 
Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family.…