The story is a narrative told by a mother who takes her two children to the seaside for a holiday. It quickly becomes apparent that she is not the best mother in the world; she can't organise anything properly, shes gets flustered very easily and doesn't have two pennies to rub together. Her chil...
This 2001 French novel (Tin House Books published the English translation in 2012) captures the internal and external experiences of an emotionally troubled mother who has taken her two young sons for a "vacation" by the sea. Like everything else she tries to do, the excursion goes all wrong--it'...