A privileged child, overprotected by a proud and independent mother, Cleopatra studies in a college where excellence and performance are legion. But in this downy universe, this bubble sheltered from the world, the little girl experiences some cognitive failures. Why does she feel like she has forgotten moments of her life? And who is this Chantal who haunts her? In Luxury, first novel for Laurence Provencher, the author meticulously explores the world of appearances, performance anxiety, and social success at all costs. Thanks to writing that is at once applied, calculated and offbeat, she constructs a fragile, cracked world. Like these characters who reveal themselves with all the flaws that lead to this dislocation, to this decomposed past. The strings of these dismembered lives thus quietly attach to each other until this finale where the breaking point is inevitable. Sensitive and strong novel which bears witness with lucidity, humor – and overall a bit of lightness – to an important societal evil.
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