My real name is Elisabeth (French edition) by Adèle Yon

📖 An intimate investigation to uncover a forgotten name

My real name is Elisabeth is the tale of a manhunt. The one of a woman, a researcher, who fears descending into madness and decides to trace back the thread of a persistent family silence : the one surrounding Elisabeth, known as Betsy, her great-grandmother, interned in the 1950s for schizophrenia.

The narrator has only fragments, contradictory accounts, gestures frozen in collective memory:

• An old coquettish woman swimming in a bathing cap
• An absurd accusation of being watched through the walls
• A house on fire, of the endured pregnancies, of the muffled family whispers

But above all: a forbidden name.

"Mom, it was a non-issue."

🔍 A text between family memory and historical investigation

✔️ A powerful debut novel, between Fiction and non-fiction
✔️ A story multiform : autobiography, investigation, essay, road trip
✔️ One deep reflection on psychiatry, the genre, "the" heredity
✔️ A dive into the intimacy of a bourgeois family, gnawed by its secrets

👁️‍🗨️ Topics covered

✅ The violence against women, killed and minimized
✅ The mental illnesses and the way they were (mis)treated in the 20th century
✅ The intergenerational dynamics and the the weight of familial silence
✅ The feminine memory, "The recovered speech, healing through writing"

✍️ A new and unique literary voice

Adèle Yon signs here a intense, sensitive, and well-documented text, where Speech is reconstructed piece by piece., starting from the archives, of the family interviews, of the places visited. A book that questions the Link between psychic inheritance and family trauma, and who finds its resonance in each reader having experienced the heavy silences of a genealogy.

📖 Book features :

• Title : My real name is Elisabeth
• Author : Adèle Yon
• Editor : Subsoil Editions
• Collection : Fiction Series
• Publication date : February 6, 2025
• Format : Paperback
• Number of pages : 400
• Dimensions : 20.8 x 14.3 x 3.1 cm
• Weight : 384 g
• Language French
• ISBN : 978-2-36468-957-2
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