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A review by applesodaperson
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
emotional
sad
fast-paced
3.75
This book was very sad to be honest. It was very short, but packed a big punch. The descriptions of her mother were so sad and grotesque. It was just an extended scene of her mother absolutely wasting away. It really hit me when she was talking about her mother giving up on living, and just becoming a corpse that is alive. This book made me really scared of getting old.
I also liked that this book was a way of reckoning with her conflicted feelings around her mother. Because there she is on her death bed, but also Beauvoir knows that her mother did not treat her well, which created some very conflicted feelings.
Overall this book was written beautifully, and dealt with some heavy topics in a nuanced way.
Read from the BYU library.
I also liked that this book was a way of reckoning with her conflicted feelings around her mother. Because there she is on her death bed, but also Beauvoir knows that her mother did not treat her well, which created some very conflicted feelings.
Overall this book was written beautifully, and dealt with some heavy topics in a nuanced way.
Read from the BYU library.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Medical content