ReadingTheDots@social.vivaldi.net"Sad Tiger" by Neige Sinno. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2025.
Book description: Winner of the Prix Femina and the Goncourt des Lycéens in 2023 and the Strega Prize in 2024, the book that shook France to its core. “Sad Tiger forces you to see, to really see, what it means to be a child abused by an adult.” (Annie Ernaux) Like Annie Ernaux or Sheila Heti, Neige Sinno has created a powerful new literary autobiographical form. Through its radical honesty, and also through its thoughtful interrogations into the nature of life and literature, Neige Sinno shares with her readers her journey from someone who considered her life to have been stolen from her to someone who over the twenty years that elapsed from her reporting the rape to writing this book, somehow got her life back, all without ever being able to erase or even change what had happened to her as a child.
No surprise, this book was not an easy read, but I am very glad I read it.
@ReadingTheDots Glad to see you found it valuable read too!