I'm Supposed To Protect You From All This (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
There was a violent rattling. The warm body in which she lived was rejecting her. She could feel her mother urging her to let go, to leave, to die. Even then she was stubborn. Even then she held on. Only much later, she told me, did her mother tell her about driving in circles over the cobblestones of La Défense, trying to shake her loose. “What I didn’t do to make you let go,” Mina told her. “And oh, how you held on!” Josée was born in 1930. I often wondered if the roundness of that year contributed to the precision of her memories. Her age had always been easy to calculate. Nine years old in 1939 when war was declared, fourteen in 1944 when the Americans marched through Paris. Her name, at the time, was Josette—a little girl’s name, the “ette” permanently diminutive. It was the name of a baker or a shopkeeper, not a name that was destined for greatness. When she married, she became the bourgeois-sounding Marie-Josée, and then simply Josée.
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