Monique Escapes - Édouard Louis the party queen

the party queen

Original Language: Hebrew

is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days

and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth

he spends his days on his land and absorbed in the family archive

Monique Escapes - Édouard Louis the party queenOne evening, during a writers residency in Athens, douard receives a tearful phone call from his mother, Monique. She tells him that the man she lives with in Paris is abusive, inflicting upon her the same drunken behaviour as douards father, repeating the same cycles of violence, shame and humiliation she fled from before. Step by step, they plan her escape, celebrating each small victory of Moniques new beginning. But how do you rebuild your life