Third novel from author of Major/Minor follows the story of Clara, a 16-year-old Parisienne forced to move to New York
Alba Arikha's critically acclaimed memoir Major/Minor captured the spirit of her artistic, at times dysfunctional, bohemian family with extraordinary honestya coming-of-age evocation of Arikha’s adolescence in 1980s Paris. It captures the spirit of her artistic, at times dysfunctional, bohemian family with extraordinary honesty and luminous prose.
With a cool intimacy, we travel with her through her education, her experiences of motherhood, and to what may yet await her. Clara reveals early on that she often feels “undefined, like a blurry outline” and yet, from the opening page, she explodes out of the ether as an immediately compelling, enigmatic and complex character. Arikha is at the height of her powers when articulating the messy glamour of adolescent girls as they evolve into singular women – and does so with great precision.
In her memoir Arikha writes that upon reading Beckett’s Endgame, she recognised that there was “no surplus, all essentials; something to strive for, when I’m older and wiser”.
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