A review by hilaryreadsbooks
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye

An inhibited book with restrained prose interspersed with torrential confession. I reached the end not sure I fully understood what was happening, but this seems like the type of book where un-clarity is the intention. Don’t go in expecting to be satisfied with answers to all your questions. A horrific triple homicide, an unsteady grip on memory, an tenuous grasp on truth and reality: This slow French thriller is all about the unraveling psyche of Maître Susane, a lawyer who is asked to defend a murderer. Suddenly, everything feels connected, everything feels tied to a fraught memory from Susane’s childhood. But is it?

Thanks to the publisher for the gifted copy.