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Her favorite quote

The world is made for two categories of people.

Men.

Rich women.

Those who speak quickly and loudly.

The others return the microphones.


Why this book?

  • Because the book plays with the border between novel and autobiography.

    It is written in the second person, “you”: this bias distances itself from the author and brings people closer to oneself, without creating a strong identification.

    Rather, it creates a closeness, a familiarity: the person to whom the author addresses, and the one to whom we address our thoughts while reading, is someone close.

    She's a friend.

  • Because it's a book that redefines the boundaries between the sexes.

    On the one hand, rich men (all) and women, and on the other, other women.

    Among these other women, we therefore find "single mothers in a couple", "who, although in a couple, find themselves carrying everything on their shoulders".

    Interesting partition of the world, which reminds us that there is always a social context to be taken into account behind the relations of domination.

  • Because it is a feminist book which does not say

    “I men, I hate them”, but “Dictatorship of alienating virility for all.

    Let them finally be released, too.

    Shit !

    ".

    No one wins in the old patriarchal world, everyone has to gain from feminism.

    But it would still be necessary to acquire the reflex of always symmetrizing the situations, for example by not being satisfied with punishing the mothers who do not let the fathers see their child, but also the fathers who do not come to see them!

  • Because in the middle of the text, we find very funny scenes

    from a play written by the narrator, which are inspired by her daily life.

    History to show that we would all have to gain there by organizing ourselves so that the authors can write (it is the job of the narrator), rather than filling out files, doing the rounds of administrations next to the plate, and juggling with several lives at the risk of losing their talent… Despite everything, fortunately “Writing, like a tiger, emerges in the setting of life.

    She is what we had not seen.

    "

  • Because we wonder who is an adult, in this world…

    “The woman stays because she is conditioned to stay.

    The husband stays for the handyman + children pack in an unlimited plan.

    Everyone is being held hostage.

    Everyone is playing hide and seek.

    Everyone is children.

    It is time for that to change!


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 You just got divorced.

You stay alone with Petit chose, who is two years old.

You love your job, but it requires sacrifices and investment because it is in the artistic field.

The father of Petit chose is absent subscribers.

Welcome to the world of single mothers ...

Characters.

 You, and Little thing.

You're going to see people who are supposed to help you, so why don't you make it out?

At first, you really ask yourself this question, but you quickly understand why "single mothers are not being helped as they should": "Otherwise, the whole country would divorce" ...

Places.

 An apartment that you renovate from top to bottom when Petit chose's father leaves.

It's at your house.

But aren't your best moments everywhere except there?

Because "the jubilation of girls in cages, when they are free, is something".

The time.

 When you think that in the 1980s, a fashionable singer proclaimed "my son, my battle" to claim his full place as a father after a divorce ... Today, it is precisely this son who is the father of Petit chose and who leaves his mother to fend for herself.

But what happened to us?

The author.

“No time for the revolution.

Women are busy ”;

“Women are not busy.

They are on the verge of breaking up ”.

Samira El Ayachi lends these words to a heroine who does the same job as her, novelist and author for the performing arts… message received!

This book was read with

 the pleasure of finding formulas that hit the mark on all pages ... like talking about "single mothers in a couple" as a "pandemic that affects all ages, all nationalities, all social classes.

»A large format released in 2019, with a very 2020 vocabulary!

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