joyliu 's review for:

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

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This is an uncomfortable, infuriatingly honest account of an affair that grapples with the nature of writing. I have often read that real people must be made fictional in order to be written about. Now I feel that through writing, fictional people can also be made heart-wrenchingly real. This is a crazy little story of love and grief. “I wondered what was the difference between this past reality and literature”