The Girl ma Mother Imagined - Isabelle Boissard | Pocket

"The Girl ma Mother Imagined" by Isabelle Boissard is a poignant novel published by Pocket.

The story follows an expat woman in Taipei who records in her diary a comfortable but futile daily life. Between frequent moves and superficial activities, his life takes an abrupt turn when his mother has an accident.

This drama brings back painful memories of his childhood and his humble origins, forcing him to face the harsh reality of his past and the social sentence: "If there is a will, there is a way."

4th Cover: Every three years, it's the same story. Dealing with the farewell party, the move, and new grey hairs. Accept the destination (Taipei!?) Meeting the other "follower spouses" at the café near the French high school, debating crucial subjects – garden furniture, yoga. Enroll in Mandarin classes and then drop out. Quit smoking, resume the next day. In her diary, she records her comfortable and futile daily life as an expatriate, when her mother has an accident. Their modest origins resurface, the death of her father when she was a child, the social uprooting. And she shoots at point-blank range at the sentence: "If we want to, we can."

Isabelle Boissard was born in 1971. Discovered thanks to The Girl ma Mother Imagined (Les Avrils, 2021; Pocket, 2022), she dissects the shortcomings of our time with a ruthless pen and a hilarious art of the fragment.

Characteristics:

• Author: Isabelle Boissard
• Publisher: Pocket
• ISBN: 978-2-266-32302-4
• Tongue: French
• Pages: 216
• Published: 2022-05-25